![]() ![]() IDVD, you couldn’t transfer a project from one Mac to another for this very reason. It walks you through the process of adding a Mute button to the main iDVD screen, so you can shut up the music momentarily without stopping the animation. You can find step-by-step instructions for a sample Franken iDVD project on this book’s “Missing CD” page at. As long as you’ve got your original iLife DVD on hand, so that you can install a fresh, unmodified copy of iDVD if necessary, you can do whatever you want to a copy and still sleep peacefully at night. This is a rush, an illicit-feeling power trip, but it doesn’t actually hurt anything. The program itself-to change its look, reassign its keystrokes, and so on. Because Mac OS X programs are often built as packages in this way, they give you a great opportunity to hack TidBits and is the author of iMovie HD & iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press, 2005).As you’ve probably discovered, the iDVD program icon isn’t really an application icon at all-it’s a Mac OS X The future of DVD is uncertain, iDVD is ready to adapt to whatever comes next. With iDVD 6, you can further control how you structure and customize your project, or let Magic iDVD do the thematic work for you. IDVD used to be a simple application that let you burn a nice-looking DVD, thanks to Apple’s themes. ![]() However, the burned discs played back smoothly in my DVD player. ![]() The only continuing irritation is that playback of the motion effects and previews is choppy, even on a fast Mac (a dual-processor 2.3GHz Power Mac G5, for example). Also, I’m not sorry to see that the Customize panel is gone it has been replaced by an iMovie-style set of panes that occupy the right side of the window. At long last, submenus are referred to consistently as submenus, not folders (which seemed confusing to newcomers). That’s where the new Magic iDVD feature comes in.Ī number of smaller improvements make working in iDVD 6 better than working in previous iDVD versions. Although some folks prefer to shoot video and photos and then edit them to their liking, a lot of people would rather throw it all on a DVD that has a little structure and polish without doing all the work. While preparing for the future, Apple hasn’t left current users behind. In iDVD 6, you can burn a DVD from a Mac that doesn’t include a SuperDrive, a restriction that Apple arbitrarily imposed in earlier versions iDVD 5 enabled you to save the project to a disc image, but you still needed to find a Mac with a SuperDrive to burn your project to a disc. If you’re working on a large monitor, you can expand the window to a more comfortable size-the window in previous iDVD versions looks like a glorified postage stamp on a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display ( Īnother example of Apple’s forward-looking approach is its most significant new feature in iDVD: Apple has finally opened the door to burning projects with third-party optical drives. With that newfound flexibility comes another bonus: you can now resize the iDVD window. Some older themes have been updated for the wide-screen format, and even the ones that still work best in the standard ratio will now also work in wide-screen format. In fact, you can switch between them easily in the same project. IDVD 6’s themes have been designed to accommodate both the wide aspect ratio and the standard (4:3) ratio. You can create wide-screen iDVD projects for viewing on your wide-screen TV. ![]()
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