WelcomeWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:04 | Hello! I'm Garrick Chow and welcome
to iDVD '09 Essential Training.
| | 00:08 | This tutorial covers the latest version of
Apple DVD creation software that comes as
| | 00:12 | part of the iLife '09 suite of applications.
| | 00:15 | Over the next thirty movies we'll cover
everything you need to know about iDVD
| | 00:19 | from start to completion. We'll start
by examining and familiarizing ourselves
| | 00:23 | with the iDVD interface. Then we'll
explore design choices looking at iDVD's
| | 00:27 | themes and menu customization tools.
| | 00:29 | I'll show you how iDVD can help you to
create additional content for your DVD
| | 00:33 | like Photo slideshows and DVD-ROM
content and you'll also see how to finalize
| | 00:37 | everything along with the few different
ways to burn a DVD disc when we are done.
| | 00:42 | I think you'll find that iDVD '09
makes it easy for you to take the movies,
| | 00:45 | music and photos you manage in the
other iLife '09 applications and bring them
| | 00:49 | together into a DVD that can be shared with your
friends and family and play it on any DVD player.
| | 00:54 | Now, let's get started with
iDVD '09 Essential Training.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you are a premium member of
lynda.com Online Training Library or
| | 00:03 | if you're watching this tutorial on a DVD-ROM,
you have accessed to the Exercise Files
| | 00:07 | used throughout this title.
| | 00:09 | For this course the Exercise Files are
divides into folders called Bryce Canyon Pics,
| | 00:13 | which contains photos, deleted
scenes, containing three short movies,
| | 00:20 | Southern Utah, containing about a
dozen other movies, and Southern Utah.m4v,
| | 00:27 | which is a longer completely edited
movie. Because you'll be using each of
| | 00:30 | these items at various times throughout
the course of this tutorial, just palace
| | 00:33 | the copy of the entire exercise files
folder on your Desktop, so you will have
| | 00:38 | easy access to it. Because there will
be many times in which you'll need to
| | 00:41 | have iDVD and the Exercise
files folder open at the same time.
| | 00:46 | If you are a monthly or annual
subscriber to lynda.com, you don't have access
| | 00:49 | to the Exercise Files but you can
still easily follow along with me just by
| | 00:53 | watching or feel free to use your own
media files. As long as you have a few
| | 00:57 | photos and some video clips you will
have no problem following along and
| | 01:00 | learning how to take advantage
of all that iDVD '09 has to offer.
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| What is iDVD?| 00:00 | So what is iDVD and what is its role
in the iLife '09 Suite? In a nutshell,
| | 00:06 | iDVD is software for taking your movies,
photos and music from the other iLife
| | 00:10 | applications like iMovie, iPhoto and
iTunes or GarageBand and burning them to a
| | 00:14 | DVD that could be played on any
commercial set top DVD player. iDVD is an
| | 00:19 | incredibly convenient way to easily
send friends and family your movies and
| | 00:22 | photos on a disc, so they can play in their
regular DVD player without needing a computer.
| | 00:27 | So that's said, iDVD is probably the
least standalone application in the iLife
| | 00:31 | Suite because you don't actually create
any content in it. You need to already
| | 00:34 | have movies or photos or music ready
to go before you can start using iDVD,
| | 00:39 | because iDVD is the tool for
assembling all of your assets on to a DVD disc.
| | 00:43 | But iDVD isn't just about creating a
DVD of your movies and photos; iDVD is
| | 00:47 | about creating beautiful and
professional looking DVDs of your movies and photos.
| | 00:51 | There's a multitude of programs out
there for burning your media files to a DVD
| | 00:55 | that could be played in a set top DVD
player, but none of them come close to
| | 00:58 | iDVD's ability to help you easily
produce professional looking menus to help
| | 01:03 | your viewers navigate through your
content. IDVD '09 comes with more than 150
| | 01:06 | professionally designed themes and a
lot of the themes feature animation and
| | 01:10 | music to really give your
DVDs that non-amateur look.
| | 01:12 | Now, to use iDVD you obviously need a
Mac with a DVD burner. Currently as I'm
| | 01:17 | recording this movie all new Macs
come with a built-in Super Drive with the
| | 01:20 | exception of the MacBook Air, which
doesn't have an optical drive at all.
| | 01:24 | A Super drive is simply a drive that
can burn both CDs and DVDs. If you have an
| | 01:28 | older Mac, you should confirm that you
have a Super drive before you put a lot
| | 01:31 | of effort to building an iDVD project.
Now, iDVD '09 also supports third-party
| | 01:36 | DVD burners, so if you have an
external DVD burner that connects to your Mac
| | 01:39 | via your USB or FireWire ports,
you can use one of those too.
| | 01:44 | But even if you don't have a DVD
burner connected to your Mac, you can still
| | 01:47 | use iDVD to create a DVD project and
then save the project as a disc image
| | 01:51 | which is a virtual disc that saved as a
file and then you can take that file to
| | 01:55 | a Mac that does have a DVD
burner and burn the image from there.
| | 01:58 | But the main thing to keep in mind is
that, iDVD is for creating DVD discs, you
| | 02:03 | don't use iDVD to post videos to the
web or to generate video files to email
| | 02:06 | the people. If you are interested in
posting your iLife music, photos or videos
| | 02:10 | to the web, check out iWeb, which is
also part of the iLife Suite and is the
| | 02:15 | application for creating web pages to
host your files. iDVD on the other hand
| | 02:19 | is for creating physical discs. So
that's said, let's start by taking a look at
| | 02:23 | the essential stuff you need to
know about the iDVD interface.
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1. Interface EssentialsUnderstanding the interface| 00:00 | In this video I'm going to walk you
through an overview of the iDVD interface.
| | 00:04 | I'm going to show you where everything
is and what certain items are called,
| | 00:07 | but we are not going to get into a
lot of detail about each item yet.
| | 00:09 | What I want to do is get you
comfortable looking at the iDVD window so you know
| | 00:13 | what I'm talking about later when I
reference different areas or buttons or
| | 00:16 | menus. So let's launch iDVD. If you
have installed iLife, you should find the
| | 00:20 | iDVD icon in your dock; if not you will
find iDVD in your Applications folder.
| | 00:26 | If you haven't open iDVD before or if
iDVD can't find a previous project you
| | 00:30 | might have been working on, this is
basically iDVD's What You Want To Do
| | 00:33 | dialog, and you can see we have four
choices here. We have Create New Project,
| | 00:38 | Open Existing Project, Magic iDVD,
which lets you create a project with a
| | 00:42 | minimum amount of effort, and OneStep DVD, which lets
you create a project directly from your video camera.
| | 00:48 | We will be talking about these last two
later but for the purposes of learning
| | 00:51 | the interface I'll Click Create a New
Project. iDVD is going to ask me to name
| | 00:56 | and save my project. I'm going to save
this on my Desktop, I get the default
| | 01:00 | name of My Great DVD, I'm just going to
call this Example DVD because I'm just
| | 01:06 | going to use this project to take you on a tour of
iDVD and I don't intend to burn it to an actual disc.
| | 01:12 | We can also choose our Aspect Ratio
for our project. We can chose between the
| | 01:16 | Standard ratio of 4:3 or Widescreen
Ratio of 16:9. I'll stick to Widescreen
| | 01:21 | although you can always
change your selection later.
| | 01:23 | So now we are looking at the main iDVD
window, pretty much all the primary work
| | 01:30 | you'll do on your DVD will happen in
this one window and you can see the window
| | 01:34 | contains a couple of panes as well
as several buttons and other interface
| | 01:37 | elements. So let's just walk through everything here
and familiarize ourselves with what's what in iDVD.
| | 01:41 | Let's start with the centermost
controls down at the bottom of the window. This
| | 01:45 | button in the middle starts and stops
any animations that may be built into the
| | 01:49 | theme you are working with. You can see
there is a large selection of themes or
| | 01:52 | looks for your DVD menus in the pane on
the right of the window and the themes
| | 01:56 | are categorized by the versions of iDVD
that have been released in the past and
| | 02:01 | all these 7.0 Themes have motion
built into them. And you can preview the
| | 02:05 | motion by Clicking the Motion button.
| | 02:08 | (Music playing.)
| | 02:16 | But as you are working on building
your DVD, you'll probably find it
| | 02:19 | distracting to have your menus
constantly in motion, so just Click the Motion
| | 02:22 | button again to stop the animation.
Motion menus in iDVD will be moving in your
| | 02:27 | final DVD whether you have the
animation paused here or not. And you will find
| | 02:31 | that nearly all the themes except for
some other ones that are mostly found in
| | 02:34 | the Old Themes section
have motion built into them.
| | 02:37 | But I'll be showing you how to turn
motion off if you don't want any as well as
| | 02:40 | how to skip the menus all together and
jump right into your video. But let's
| | 02:43 | continue examining the interface first.
To the left of the Motion button is the
| | 02:47 | DVD Map button and this lets you see the layout of your
DVD and check out how all of your menus are connected.
| | 02:54 | I don't have much of anything going on
this project right now, so it's a pretty
| | 02:57 | limited map. But as to continue to
add menus to your project you will see
| | 03:00 | additional menus get added to your DVD
Map. We'll check this out more later.
| | 03:05 | For now I'm going to Click
Return to go back to the main menu.
| | 03:08 | To the right of the Motion button is
the Drop Zone Editor. All of iDVD's themes
| | 03:12 | have areas into which you can drop
videos or photos to personalize the look of
| | 03:16 | the menu you are working with. You
can see on this theme we have a one drop
| | 03:19 | zone right here. I'm going to drag the
playhead so you can see that a little
| | 03:23 | bit better. You can see this label
that says Drop Zone 1, but other themes,
| | 03:29 | like for instance this one called
Forever. Switch over that. This one has lots
| | 03:35 | of Drop Zones. As I scrub it through here you can
see all the different Drop Zones that are available.
| | 03:43 | So I could drag several movies or
photos into these Drop Zone areas.
| | 03:47 | Alternatively you can Click the Drop
Zone Edit button if you want one central
| | 03:51 | location to drag files into. This can
be specifically handy in a theme like
| | 03:55 | this one where you can't see
all the Drop Zones at once.
| | 03:58 | So instead of having to drag the
playhead back and forth you can access all the
| | 04:01 | drop zones from here. And that
includes the Drop Zone for the themes
| | 04:05 | background. In all iDVD themes you can customize the
background image, which we'll see how to do a little bit later.
| | 04:11 | I'll Click the Drop Zone Editor
button again to close that area off. In the
| | 04:14 | lower left hand corner of the iDVD
window we have two buttons. Clicking the i
| | 04:19 | or Info button, opens the Menu Info
window which floats above the main iDVD
| | 04:23 | window so you can always get to it.
And from this Menu Info window you can
| | 04:27 | customize the behavior of your theme.
I'll talk about this more later as well.
| | 04:33 | To the left of the Info button is the
+ symbol or Add button and this is the
| | 04:37 | button you used to add links to
Submenus, Movies or Photo Slideshows. So if I
| | 04:41 | want to add a sub-menu I have to
select Add Submenu, you can see my sub-menu
| | 04:46 | appears there, and add another one, I
can add a link to a movie and so on and
| | 04:52 | so on. So each time I make a selection,
a new menu is added to my project. But
| | 04:57 | I'll get rid of all these for now. Just
select them and hit the Delete key on my keyboard.
| | 05:01 | Let's move on to the right, here's
the Volume slider, and this controls the
| | 05:06 | volume of audio playing back while
you are working in iDVD. A lot of the
| | 05:10 | available themes in iDVD also contain
music but if you don't want to hear the
| | 05:13 | music while you are working in iDVD or if you
want to hear it louder just use the Volume slider.
| | 05:18 | But be aware that this slider has
no effect on the final output of your
| | 05:21 | project. Even if you have the Volume
slider all the way down so that you can't
| | 05:25 | hear anything while you are working on your project,
your audio will show up normally in your final DVD.
| | 05:31 | To change the level of the audio on
the final DVD, you have to go back to the
| | 05:34 | Menu Info pane and play with the Menu Volume slider
here under Audio. But we won't mess with that right now.
| | 05:41 | Next we have the Play button, this
is the button you use to preview your
| | 05:44 | project, to see what it will look like
when somebody actually sticks your final
| | 05:48 | DVD into a DVD player. And you even get
this handy remote control to test it out.
| | 06:00 | Of course not much is going on this
particular DVD. I can turn up the music.
| | 06:05 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:10 | So when you are done previewing your
DVD just Click Stop to go back to the Main
| | 06:14 | iDVD window. And next to the Play
button we have the Burn button, which starts
| | 06:19 | the process of burning your final DVD.
Now obviously I have added no movies, or
| | 06:23 | other content to this project and iDVD
knows that so it's telling me there are
| | 06:26 | errors and I should probably check them out
before I try to burn a DVD. I'll just Click OK.
| | 06:31 | And finally in the lower right hand
corner of the iDVD window, we have three
| | 06:34 | buttons for displaying the Themes,
Buttons and Media we want to use in our
| | 06:37 | projects. We have already seen the
Themes is where you select the look of your
| | 06:41 | DVD menu and again up at the top you
can chose from the most recent 7.0 Themes,
| | 06:47 | some of the older 6.0 Themes and even
from a large selection of even older
| | 06:51 | themes from previous versions of iDVD.
| | 06:57 | The Buttons pane is for altering the
look of buttons, which are the Clickable
| | 07:00 | areas of your menus. Here you can
significantly change the look of your menus
| | 07:04 | by selecting from several categories
up here at the top of the window. So you
| | 07:08 | can chose from Text buttons, Bullets,
Shapes, Frames and so on and so on.
| | 07:13 | Again, we'll look more at this area later.
| | 07:17 | Finally from the Media button you can
access the Movies, Photos and Music on
| | 07:22 | your Mac and drop them into your iDVD
project. So that's a very brief overview
| | 07:28 | of the iDVD interface. Again, we'll be getting a lot more
in depth of all of these elements in the movies that follow.
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| Setting iDVD preferences| 00:00 | Let's take a look at some important
preferences in iDVD. I'm going to select
| | 00:04 | iDVD > Preferences and here in iDVD
Preferences we have five different
| | 00:10 | categories: General, Projects, Slideshow,
Movies and Advanced. Let's start with General.
| | 00:15 | First under Menus we have a checkbox
for Show drop zone labels and that simply
| | 00:20 | turns the labels for the drop zones on
or off. I prefer to keep that checked so
| | 00:25 | I can tell which drop zone is which and
I recommend you do the same especially
| | 00:29 | if you're working in a theme
that has multiple drop zones.
| | 00:32 | Next we have Show Apple logo watermark,
which you can check and you can see
| | 00:35 | that puts a little Apple logo on
your project. It's completely up to you
| | 00:39 | whether you want to advertise the
fact that you created your DVD on a Mac.
| | 00:43 | I tend to keep that off.
| | 00:46 | The third option here is Fade volume
out at end of menu loop. Basically what
| | 00:50 | this means is when you're playing a
menu containing background music, the music
| | 00:54 | will play all the way to the end and
then the entire menu will loop back to the
| | 00:57 | beginning and the music will start over,
and it will just do this endlessly in
| | 01:00 | a cycle until the person
watching the DVD selects a menu item.
| | 01:04 | The music in iDVD's themes has been
designed to do this. They flow seamlessly
| | 01:08 | from the end of the music track right
back into the beginning. But if you've
| | 01:11 | imported your own music you might not
have edited your music to fit exactly the
| | 01:14 | length of the iDVD theme menu loop
which can result in having a music abruptly
| | 01:18 | chopped off at the end of the cycle
before it starts all over again. So if
| | 01:22 | you're using your own music you
probably do want to keep Fade volume out at end
| | 01:25 | of menu loop checked because then iDVD
will add a nice fade out to the music so
| | 01:29 | it doesn't sound like the
music was just suddenly cut off.
| | 01:32 | The next section of choices here falls
under When changing themes and we have
| | 01:36 | the choices of: Use theme default values,
Retain changes to theme defaults and
| | 01:40 | Always ask. This preference becomes
important when you customize the look of a theme.
| | 01:44 | For example, if you've changed the
look of a default menu button and then you
| | 01:48 | want to try at another theme and you
have Use theme default values checked,
| | 01:52 | your changes are going to be replaced
in favor of the new theme settings. If
| | 01:56 | you have Retain changes to theme
defaults selected, your changes will carry
| | 02:00 | over into the new theme, or you can
always check Always ask for iDVD to ask you
| | 02:04 | each time you change a theme to see
which choice you want to make. I personally
| | 02:08 | just keep Use theme default values
selected because I really make such extreme
| | 02:12 | changes to a theme that redoing the change takes a lot of
time. But you might want to make a different selection here.
| | 02:17 | Next we have Check for iDVD updates
automatically, because occasionally Apple
| | 02:21 | will release updates to the software
and those are usually bug fixes or feature
| | 02:25 | enhancements. Leaving this option
checked will have iDVD check for these
| | 02:29 | updates automatically
whenever you open the program.
| | 02:32 | The last button in this section of
the Preferences is Reset Warnings.
| | 02:35 | Occasionally you get messages from
iDVD that include checkboxes that say
| | 02:39 | something like Don't Show Me this
Again. If you're seeing an alert over and
| | 02:42 | over again you would most likely prefer
not to have to see it any more and you
| | 02:45 | have probably seen this kind of message
in some other programs if not in iDVD.
| | 02:48 | Or if you've told iDVD to not show
you something again but then change your
| | 02:52 | mind, just come into Preferences and
Click Reset Warnings and then iDVD will
| | 02:57 | start showing you those warning messages again.
| | 02:59 | Next we have our Projects Preferences.
What you see here are the default
| | 03:03 | settings for any new iDVD projects you
create. Video Mode refers to the format
| | 03:08 | of your video. If you're in North
America or Japan, you'll use the NTSC format,
| | 03:13 | which displays videos at a rate of 30
frames/second. If you're in Europe you'll
| | 03:17 | be using the PAL format, which displays
video at 25 frames/second. But in most
| | 03:22 | cases you'll have the correct setting
in here already, so you won't have to
| | 03:24 | change it unless you're creating a DVD
for someone in another country using a
| | 03:27 | different standard. So if I were
creating a DVD for a friend in Europe, I would
| | 03:31 | change the Video Mode to the PAL setting.
| | 03:34 | Next we have the Encoding menu and
we have three options in here -- Best
| | 03:37 | Performance, High Quality and
Professional Quality and these basically
| | 03:41 | determine how iDVD encodes or writes
your final DVD. Before you burn your final
| | 03:46 | DVD, iDVD has to encode all of your videos,
menus and audio properly for use on a regular DVD.
| | 03:52 | With Best Performance selected iDVD
encodes your video while you're working on
| | 03:56 | building your DVD project. So if I've
added some video to my project already
| | 04:00 | and I'm still working on adding more,
if I have Best Performance selected, iDVD
| | 04:05 | is actually working in the background
encoding the video I've already added, so
| | 04:08 | I won't have to do it when I finally
go to burn my DVD. So it can save you a
| | 04:12 | lot of time when it comes time to
burn the final DVD because a lot of the
| | 04:15 | encoding might already have been done.
| | 04:16 | This Best Performance setting is best for
videos that are less than an hour or so.
| | 04:20 | If you're going to have a DVD that's
longer than hour, you'll probably want
| | 04:24 | to choose one of the other two settings.
So High Quality is a better choice if
| | 04:27 | you have a longer movie, longer than
an hour and you want to make sure that
| | 04:31 | iDVD chooses the best possible settings
for the amount of data you need to fit
| | 04:34 | on the disc. So with longer movies
you'll generally find a better looking video
| | 04:38 | quality with High Quality selected than
if you have Best Performance selected.
| | 04:43 | The third choice is Professional
Quality, which takes about twice of the time
| | 04:46 | as High Quality Encoding takes but
gives you the absolute best quality possible
| | 04:50 | for your project. You can use this
setting for both short and long movies.
| | 04:54 | You can fit about two hours of video on
a regular recordable DVD, also called a
| | 04:58 | DVD-R, but iDVD can also burn to dual
layer DVDs or DVD-DLs, which can contain
| | 05:05 | about four hours of video. But be
prepared to wait a long time if you choose
| | 05:09 | Professional Quality like overnight at
least. In many cases when you're ready
| | 05:13 | to burn your final DVD, it's best to
start everything before you go to bed at
| | 05:16 | night and hopefully by the time you
wake up the project will be complete.
| | 05:20 | The final menu here is DVD Type and
this is a menu for selecting the type of
| | 05:24 | DVD whether it's single-layer or
double-layer that you intend to burn your
| | 05:28 | project to. It's important to choose
the proper type here because iDVD will
| | 05:31 | base its compression settings on how much
space it will have to burn that final DVD.
| | 05:35 | So for instance, if you know that
you'll be burning to double layer discs
| | 05:39 | for the majority of the time you'll
probably want to select double-layer. If
| | 05:42 | you know that you're going to be burning to
single layer discs, keep single-layer selected.
| | 05:45 | Now keep in mind these preferences are
for all new projects you open. These are
| | 05:50 | the defaults that will be applied to
any projects you create. If you want to
| | 05:53 | change any of these settings for the
project you currently have open, you don't
| | 05:56 | do it here on Preferences. Instead
you go to the Project menu and choose
| | 06:01 | Project Info. Here is where you'll
to find the same settings we were just
| | 06:07 | looking at in Preferences but these are
specific to the current project I'm working in.
| | 06:10 | So if I want to change the Encoding
setting to Professional for just this
| | 06:14 | project, I can select it from the
Encoding menu here, or if I want to change
| | 06:18 | the video mode for just this project
to PAL I can select that from here as
| | 06:20 | well. Notice that I get the warning
here saying that changing the TV standard
| | 06:24 | will require iDVD to encode all the previous
encoded assets again. So let me just cancel that.
| | 06:30 | Notice here that we also have Quality
and Capacity bars that tell you how much
| | 06:33 | space you're using up and its affect
on the final quality of your project. As
| | 06:37 | you add more content to your project,
the arrow that you see here will move to
| | 06:41 | the right and the Quality bar will
start turning yellow and eventually red,
| | 06:45 | telling you that you're pretty much
filling up your disc and can expect to see
| | 06:48 | a dip in the video quality.
| | 06:50 | The Capacity bar you see here will
contain color-coded bars showing you which
| | 06:54 | type of content is taking up how much
space. You'll see specific colors for
| | 06:59 | DVD-ROM content, Slideshows, Menus and
Movies. This is a lot like the bar you
| | 07:03 | see in iTunes when you connect an iPod
telling you how much of your iPod space
| | 07:07 | is being taken up my music, videos or applications.
I'll go ahead and close the Project Info window.
| | 07:14 | Now there are three other categories
of Preferences, Slideshows, Movies and
| | 07:18 | Advanced, but we'll get to those as
they come up because they applied to
| | 07:21 | specific types of content. For now, those are the
essential preferences I wanted to introduce you to.
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| Using the TV and standard crop areas| 00:00 | When you're working in iDVD your goal
is to create a physical disc that you can
| | 00:04 | send off to your friends and family,
which they can then play in their regular
| | 00:07 | set-top DVD player or in their
computer or wherever they happen to play their
| | 00:11 | DVDs. The point is you might never know
exactly on what device your DVD will be
| | 00:15 | played. So there is an important step
to take to make sure that people watching
| | 00:18 | your DVD will be able to see
what you intend them to see.
| | 00:21 | I'm going to select another theme and
let's go with Sunflower. I'm going to add
| | 00:26 | a couple of menu buttons. So I'll come
down to the Add button and I'm going to
| | 00:31 | choose Add Submenu and I'll add
another one and let's add a Movie button.
| | 00:38 | In the next chapter, we'll be looking
at how to work with sub-menu buttons but
| | 00:41 | for now I just wanted to create a
couple of buttons on screen so we have
| | 00:44 | something to work with. Now let's drag
these around on our screen, away from
| | 00:48 | their default areas. I'll just drag
these anywhere I like. Notice that iDVD
| | 00:54 | does offer these guidelines letting me
know when I've aligned my button with
| | 00:58 | another button on screen whether it's in
the center there or by its edge, like so.
| | 01:04 | If you're trying to follow along and
you're finding that you can't just place
| | 01:06 | these buttons anywhere on screen you
want, Click the Info button. Now currently
| | 01:11 | this is the Button Info button
because I have a button selected. This is a
| | 01:14 | contextual menu, so I'm going to Click
off to deselect the button I currently
| | 01:18 | have selected. You can see that now
it turns this window into the menu Info
| | 01:23 | window. And in here you just want to
make sure that Free positioning is checked
| | 01:26 | which allows you to drag
buttons anywhere on screen you like.
| | 01:30 | So after placing these buttons I
would continue working with them by
| | 01:33 | customizing the text, linking them to
sub-menus and so on. But what I want to
| | 01:37 | emphasize right now is making sure
that everyone who might watch this DVD I'm
| | 01:40 | making can see these buttons in their entirety.
| | 01:43 | Now I'm currently working in a
widescreen project and what I'm about to show
| | 01:46 | you is sometimes less of an issue
when you're working in widescreen because
| | 01:49 | many people will be watching your
widescreen project on a widescreen TV like a
| | 01:53 | modern LCD or plasma TV. Older TVs are
in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio. A lot
| | 01:59 | of times they have a plastic casing
around them that has a big old TV tube and
| | 02:03 | that casing often covers a small
portion around the edges of the TV screen
| | 02:07 | which might in turn cover part of your project.
| | 02:09 | So what we can do in iDVD is go to the
View menu and we have an option here to
| | 02:14 | Show TV Safe Area. This grays out the
area that could potentially be covered by
| | 02:18 | a casing around TV screen. Of course
if someone were watching your DVD on a
| | 02:22 | computer you won't have to worry about
it because they'll probably be watching
| | 02:25 | your DVD on a window on a computer
screen. But even if they're watching in full
| | 02:29 | screen mode or on a modern LCD or
plasma TV, even though those monitors and
| | 02:34 | widescreen DVDs don't usually have case that cover
any significant portion of their screen, some still do.
| | 02:39 | You can see that there are parts of
my sub-menus that are currently outside
| | 02:43 | that TV Safe Area. This Add Movie
button is almost completely outside the TV
| | 02:47 | Safe Area. Now this isn't a guarantee
that they'll be chopped off when viewed
| | 02:51 | on a TV but if I want to be completely
sure that anyone watching my DVD on any
| | 02:55 | device will see everything the way I
intended, I want to make sure to move
| | 02:58 | every element into the TV Safe Area.
So I'll drag that button and make sure
| | 03:02 | it's in that area, just aligned them like so.
| | 03:08 | Now the other thing to consider when
you're working with a widescreen project
| | 03:11 | is that some people might be watching
your project on a standard TV in the 4:3
| | 03:14 | aspect ratio. In which case you might
want to turn off the TV Safe Area by
| | 03:19 | choosing Hide TV Safe Area and then
choose View > Show Standard Crop Area.
| | 03:27 | So this is what happens on some TVs
when you display a wide screen image, the
| | 03:30 | TV crops off the left and right sides
of the project. So you can see that each
| | 03:34 | of my menus is still being cropped off
here. So I might want to just move those
| | 03:38 | in a little bit more to
the left just to be safe.
| | 03:44 | So with a setup like this, even
though it looks a little cramped, I can be
| | 03:47 | guaranteed that my menus will appear
in their entirety on pretty much any
| | 03:50 | device this DVD is played on. Still
these are just estimates, northing is
| | 03:54 | really standard about the TV Safe Area
or the Standard Crop Area but this is
| | 03:58 | iDVD's best guess at what might be cut off on some
older TVs. I'll go ahead and Hide that Crop Area.
| | 04:04 | You can see that even with the menus
moved in more towards the center, it
| | 04:09 | really doesn't look too bad or
cramped at all once you have the crop area
| | 04:12 | display hidden. But a lot of this
depends on which theme you choose and how
| | 04:15 | many menu items you need to add. Some
things have more room for more menus
| | 04:18 | while others are better
off with just a few items.
| | 04:21 | So just keep the idea of the TV Safe
Area in the back of your head as you build
| | 04:25 | your iDVD project. Avoid dragging
buttons or other elements all the way flush
| | 04:29 | with the edge of the menu because you
might actually put your menus in places
| | 04:32 | where people won't even be able to see
them. Of course, if you know that the
| | 04:35 | person watching your DVD will only be
watching on a computer then you can feel
| | 04:39 | free to drag your items anywhere you
want. But you should be pretty certain
| | 04:42 | that they'll only be watching on a
computer before you do something like that.
| | 04:44 | Finally I should mention that the View >
Show Standard Crop Area option is only
| | 04:49 | available if you're working in a wide
screen project. If I switch my project to
| | 04:54 | standard 4:3, notice that Show Standard
Crop Area is not available because I'm
| | 05:00 | already looking at the standard crop
area. I can still turn on the TV safe Area
| | 05:04 | and you can see it still displays the safe
area and my elements are still inside that area.
| | 05:09 | So let's do something to keep in mind
as you're building your project. Turn on
| | 05:12 | the TV Safe Area every now and then
just to make sure your elements are still
| | 05:14 | within the viewable area. The good
news is that iDVD automatically keeps all
| | 05:19 | menus within the safe area by default.
So if I were to choose another theme,
| | 05:24 | I went up and choose Revolution and
I'll change this back to 16:9. You can see
| | 05:34 | that all of my menu items are
still within that TV Safe Area.
| | 05:38 | So really you only have to keep the
TV Safe Area in mind if you're moving things
| | 05:41 | around a lot on your screen. I'll go ahead and
turn that off and we'll move on to the next movie.
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| Editing text| 00:00 | In this video I want to show you how
to work with and edit text in iDVD,
| | 00:04 | because it's something you will be
doing a lot. Whether it's working with the
| | 00:07 | heading of your menus, individual
buttons, or just plain text you are placing
| | 00:10 | somewhere on your screen, you're going
to need to know how to edit text. And
| | 00:13 | it's pretty easy to do, but there are
some things you need to watch out for.
| | 00:16 | On the screen I have the title of the
DVD, which is currently the default title
| | 00:20 | for this theme, Revolution and it's
called Revolution Main. Main simply means
| | 00:24 | we are on the main screen right now.
So unless your DVD movie is called
| | 00:28 | Revolution or Revolution Main, you
probably want to change this text.
| | 00:32 | To do so, you can Click to select the
text, wait a second, and then Click it
| | 00:36 | again to highlight it. Notice this
gives me a selection of menus below which
| | 00:40 | I can use to change the text, font face,
appearance and size, more on that in
| | 00:43 | just a moment. But from here I can
start typing over to selected text. Maybe
| | 00:47 | I'm making a DVD of my trip to Southern Utah.
| | 00:50 | So I'll type Southern Utah and when I
Click out to deselect that text, you can
| | 00:56 | see how the text will look on the menu,
but also notice the text in this theme
| | 01:00 | has changed too. Let me just scrub the playhead
and you can see it reads Southern Utah.
| | 01:09 | And it's all over the place.
In this theme we have the large
| | 01:11 | Southern Utah text here; we have got
some up here and circling around out here.
| | 01:17 | Not all themes repeat your title like
this, but some like this one do, which
| | 01:20 | I think is a pretty cool feature. Now
I'll select that text again, Clicking it
| | 01:24 | once, waiting a second, and then
Clicking again. Changing the formatting of the
| | 01:28 | text is a simple matter of just
making your format selections from the menu
| | 01:31 | below. So maybe I do like the Futura
font, but let's make this Condensed
| | 01:37 | ExtraBold, and let's make this a little
bit bigger. I'll choose 24 and there that is.
| | 01:45 | So that's pretty straightforward.
Now editing your title text is a little
| | 01:48 | different than editing the text in the
buttons like we see below. But if you
| | 01:52 | follow the proper procedure of
Clicking the text once it's selected, pausing,
| | 01:56 | and then Clicking again, you will have
no problem editing the text in buttons.
| | 02:01 | But if you get overzealous and
actually Double-Click buttons like so, iDVD
| | 02:06 | assumes that you actually want the button
to do its job and take you to a sub-menu.
| | 02:10 | In this case we are looking at an
Extras menu, Revolution Extras. This is like
| | 02:14 | something you might have in a DVD that
includes things like deleted scenes or
| | 02:17 | outtakes, and this is an entirely
different menu than the one we were just
| | 02:20 | working on. So if you do this be
accident, you want to go back to that main
| | 02:24 | menu, so you want to find the Back
button, which each sub-menu does have. In
| | 02:28 | this case, it's this little arrow and
that will take you back to the main screen.
| | 02:32 | So just remember, don't Double-Click
buttons unless you want to visit the
| | 02:35 | screens they take you to. If you want
to edit text, Click, pause, and then
| | 02:40 | single-Click again. Now I can change
this menu to say Outtakes and I'll change
| | 02:48 | this one to Deleted Scenes,
and that's how easy it is.
| | 02:54 | Incidentally, it is okay to Double-
Click the title, since it's not a button and
| | 02:58 | it doesn't take you anywhere. So I can
Double-Click that to make my selection.
| | 03:02 | But the Click-pause-Click method is a
good habit to get into. So I usually just
| | 03:06 | do that regardless of what
kind of text I'm working with.
| | 03:09 | The third type of text you can add to
our screen is just plain old text. Let's
| | 03:13 | say I wanted to personalize the screen
with some info about when these footage
| | 03:16 | was shot. So I can choose Project > Add
Text. You can see it puts this Click to
| | 03:21 | edit textbox here on my screen.
| | 03:24 | I will Click there and I'll type
recorded April 2009, and when you are done
| | 03:33 | typing your text, you can just Click
outside of the textbox, so iDVD knows you
| | 03:36 | are done. Pressing Return or Enter on
your keyboard makes iDVD think you want
| | 03:39 | to add another line of text,
which I don't want to do in this case.
| | 03:43 | I do want to make this a little bit
smaller. So let's make this say, size 14,
| | 03:50 | and then you can move it anywhere you
like. Let's move it down here. Now this
| | 03:55 | is the case where I might want to
turn on that TV Safe Area we were talking
| | 03:58 | about in the previous video to make
sure that this text stays within that area,
| | 04:05 | and I'm going to turn that off.
| | 04:07 | So being able to change the font and
size of text is fine and those are usually
| | 04:10 | the two most common changes you will
make to text other than what the text
| | 04:13 | actually says. But you have many more
options available to you. With your text
| | 04:17 | selected, you can Click the Info button.
Now remember that the Info window is a
| | 04:22 | contextual window, meaning that it
changes based on what you have selected. My
| | 04:26 | text is highlighted right now,
so I see the Text Info window.
| | 04:29 | If I were to select a button, I would
see the Button Info window. It contains
| | 04:34 | the same text editing features, but the
Button Info window also has some menus
| | 04:37 | to add custom transitions to your
buttons. I'll talk about those later, but for
| | 04:40 | now, I'm just going to select my text
again and from the Text Info window I've
| | 04:45 | the same font and size menus, but I
also have the areas here to change the
| | 04:49 | color of my text, which is this color
well here. And I want to just change this
| | 04:53 | to a solid white color like so, and I
can also add a drop shadow behind the
| | 05:03 | text. Now you probably can't see too
much going on there, because I'm already
| | 05:06 | on a dark background, but it's there,
and you can also change the alignment of
| | 05:10 | the text which is really only useful if
you have more than one line of text. So
| | 05:13 | let's add another line of text here.
| | 05:15 | I will hit Option+G to add a
copyright symbol and I'll type my name. So now
| | 05:23 | with two lines of text, I can choose to
have that text aligned to the left, to
| | 05:27 | the center, or to the right. I kind of like it
aligned to the right, so I'll leave it like that.
| | 05:31 | And incidentally, if you don't
know the keyboard commands for special
| | 05:34 | characters like the copyright symbol,
just put your cursor where you want that
| | 05:38 | character to appear. I'll just go
ahead and delete mine, so I could show you
| | 05:40 | how this works. And then you can
choose Edit > Special Characters, and in this
| | 05:46 | window, you will find a ton of special
characters, and all you have to do is
| | 05:49 | find the one you need, and I happen to
know that the copyright symbol appears
| | 05:52 | under Miscellaneous, and it's right
there, but you can see we have several
| | 05:55 | other different symbols we can
choose from throughout this window.
| | 06:00 | With that copyright symbol selected,
I'll just Click Insert, and you can see it
| | 06:03 | just gets added to my text where my
cursor was. And that's not an iDVD only
| | 06:08 | feature. That goes for just about all
Apple created applications. Go and close
| | 06:14 | the menu Info window, and I'm going to
turn on the TV Safe Area again to make
| | 06:17 | sure that my text all
fits in there. There we go.
| | 06:22 | So you can see we have a lot of
options for editing and arranging text in our
| | 06:25 | menus. Again, the most important
thing is to get out of the habit of
| | 06:28 | Double-Clicking buttons to edit their
text. It's not the end of the world, if
| | 06:31 | you accidentally go to the sub-menus
they represent, but it can be pretty
| | 06:34 | annoying if you keep
doing it over and over again.
| | 06:36 | And one other thing I want to mention
is that you can format multiple text
| | 06:39 | blocks at once. So if I wanted to say
change the color of all three of these
| | 06:43 | buttons at once, I can hold down the
Shift key, Click them all, and then open
| | 06:48 | the what is now the Button Info menu,
and change their color from here all at
| | 06:52 | once. So if I wanted to make them all
bright yellow for instance, I could do
| | 06:56 | that very easily. I actually prefer white, so
l will just go ahead and change this to white.
| | 07:00 | Now the only thing you can't do is
select buttons and regular text blocks at
| | 07:04 | the same time. So I can't hold Shift,
select these buttons and also select my
| | 07:11 | title here, only my title will then be selected.
| | 07:13 | Even if I try to drag through all four
of these items, I can't do that either.
| | 07:18 | I can only select either buttons or
regular text. And by the way if you
| | 07:22 | completely mess up your text
appearance and you want to start all over from
| | 07:25 | scratch, just select the text and then
choose Advanced > Reset Objects to Theme
| | 07:30 | Settings and that will revert the text
to its default look for the theme you
| | 07:34 | are working in. and that's
how we work with text in iDVD.
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| Using drop zones and menu backgrounds| 00:00 | Now let's look at another important
aspect of customizing your DVD menus in
| | 00:03 | iDVD. Drop zones. Drop zones are parts
of a menu into which you can add or drop
| | 00:09 | movies or still images to really give
your menu a personalized, custom look.
| | 00:13 | And I could continue sitting here all
day trying to explain it better than that
| | 00:16 | but it's so much easier
just to show you how they work.
| | 00:18 | I have copied the exercise files
folders to my Desktop. So if you have access
| | 00:22 | to the exercise files for this tutorial,
you can do you can do the same and try
| | 00:25 | this along with me. And inside
exercise files, I have some folders: Bryce
| | 00:28 | Canyon Pics, Southern Utah, deleted
scenes, and a Southern Utah movie. Now the
| | 00:33 | number of drop zones you are going to
have is going to vary depending on which
| | 00:36 | theme you have selected. In this
revolution theme, I have just the 1 drop zone
| | 00:40 | which you can see right there.
| | 00:42 | Now to add a movie or still image, I
could go to the Media panel and grab
| | 00:47 | photos from my iPhoto Library or from
my Movies folder, but since I'm going to
| | 00:51 | be using the files on my Desktop,
I'm just going to drag them in from my
| | 00:54 | Desktop. Now this of course requires
you to have a movie to drag into iDVD, but
| | 00:59 | you can easily create a movie for
use in a drop zone in iMovie. I suggest
| | 01:03 | editing it down to a maximum
of 30 seconds or so if you can.
| | 01:06 | Drop zone movies don't need to be much
longer than that and you are basically
| | 01:09 | increasing the amount of space on
your DVD that your menus will take up,
| | 01:12 | leaving less room for your actual
content. So I'm going to grab a movie in
| | 01:17 | Southern Utah called flowers.mov. I'm
going to drag that into my drop zone, you
| | 01:22 | can see it highlights with that yellow
and black border. Let me close that for
| | 01:28 | a moment, and to see that in action,
I can just hit the Motion button.
| | 01:41 | So we can see all these different
instances of my video playing all throughout
| | 01:45 | this theme. It doesn't get much easier
or cooler than that. Now some things you
| | 01:51 | can do, you can customize the part of
the movie that plays back, all you have
| | 01:54 | to do is select the movie in the Drop
Zone, and then you can drag the start and
| | 01:59 | end sliders that appear to
different parts of your movie.
| | 02:02 | So if I didn't want to start this
movie with this extreme close-up of the
| | 02:04 | flowers, I can just drag in till I
find a frame that I'm comfortable starting
| | 02:08 | at, maybe right there. And I can do
the same thing with the end of the movie.
| | 02:12 | If I don't want to show the very
end of the movie, I can just drag in.
| | 02:15 | That could be very useful if you have a
great shot, you want to use, but maybe
| | 02:19 | some stranger walks in the frame at the
very end of the clip, you can just trim
| | 02:22 | that part away, so it doesn't show up
in your drop zone. Now I mentioned that
| | 02:25 | you can also use still images in your
drop zones, and adding them to your iDVD
| | 02:30 | project is no different than adding a
movie. Just the find the image you want
| | 02:33 | to use. In this case, I'm going to go
into Bryce Canyon Pics and I'm just going
| | 02:36 | to choose Image 01 and drag that
into the drop zone, and there it is.
| | 02:42 | I'll play that again. So not too much
going on there. Because it's a still
| | 02:56 | image, it's not going to move around,
and selecting the image doesn't give me
| | 03:00 | any other options. It's just the
still image rotating around in this theme,
| | 03:04 | which is still pretty cool. Forget this;
you can add more than a single image
| | 03:07 | into a single drop zone to create an
automatic slide show right in the drop zone.
| | 03:12 | So for instance, I could select the
rest the images in the Bryce Canyon Pics by
| | 03:16 | holding on the Shift key and selecting
them all, and just dragging them into
| | 03:19 | the drop zone. Now when I select that
drop zone, I get a slider in which I can
| | 03:26 | choose which image I want to start with.
And I can even Click Edit Order to see
| | 03:34 | all of the photos and I
can drag the images around.
| | 03:37 | So I if I wanted to move this little
chipmunk guy in a little bit, I could do
| | 03:41 | that. And it looks like I actually
need to drag all those images in. So I'm
| | 03:44 | missing Image 01. So I can just drag
that in. So we have 10 images, and maybe
| | 03:50 | I want that to be the first image. And
when I'm done, I can Click Return, close
| | 03:56 | the drop menu area, and Click Play.
| | 03:59 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:03 | And now I can see the slide show that's
going on inside that single drop zone.
| | 04:06 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:10 | Now I can't change to the speed of the
slide show. iDVD automatically spaces
| | 04:14 | out the images based on the number of
pictures and the amount of time the menu
| | 04:17 | plays before it loops back to the
beginning but this is still very cool. So
| | 04:22 | this is how you work with a theme that
has a single drop zone. Let's check out
| | 04:24 | a theme that has a multiply drop zones.
| | 04:26 | I will go back to Themes and I'll
select that Forever theme again. iDVD tells
| | 04:33 | me that applying the master of the
theme to this project will change the theme
| | 04:36 | for all menus in the project, which
is fine for this example. So now I have
| | 04:42 | changed themes. Let me scrub through here a bit.
| | 04:46 | Notice that iDVD has occupied just the
first drop zone in this menu with all
| | 04:51 | the images we dropped into the other
theme instead of distributing them among
| | 04:54 | the multiple drop zones. But that's how
it's supposed to work. iDVD has no idea
| | 04:58 | if you want to keep the slideshow
going in one drop zone or distributed among
| | 05:02 | all the drop zones. So it retains
the behavior from the previous theme.
| | 05:05 | You might also have noticed that some
of my menu buttons have gotten a bit out
| | 05:09 | of order here, like it just spread them
out a little bit. We've moved this down.
| | 05:19 | So I would have to spend some time
rearranging them, which I'm not really going
| | 05:21 | to worry about right now, because we
are talking about drop zones. So when you
| | 05:24 | are working with multiple drop zones,
it's best to pop up in the Drop Zone
| | 05:27 | Editor, so you can see at a glance
which images or movies you are using or if
| | 05:31 | you've missed any drop zones.
| | 05:33 | This theme has six drop zones, but
only the first one is occupied right now.
| | 05:36 | When I roll my mouse over it, notice it
tells me that I have ten photos in that
| | 05:40 | particular drop zone. I must go ahead
and select them and hit the Delete key on
| | 05:44 | my keyboard to clear them all out of
there so we can start from scratch.
| | 05:47 | So again this theme has six drop zones
and there is never a moment when all six
| | 05:51 | are onscreen simultaneously. So by
opening the Drop Zone Editor, I'm making it
| | 05:58 | easier myself by dropping my movies
or images into these numbered areas.
| | 06:02 | So I can come back to my images and
I'll drag 01 into Number 1 there, Number 2,
| | 06:09 | that's 004, and this is 005, and we can
even mix it up by dragging some movies
| | 06:16 | into some of these drop zones. You
don't have to stick to only still photos or
| | 06:19 | only movies. I'd drag in flowers again
and we'll drag the one called Stacks.
| | 06:26 | Now let's see how that looks.
| | 06:32 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:39 | So those are the still images.
| | 06:41 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:52 | Here, you can see one of
the movies in the background.
| | 06:54 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:57 | All right, now notice that
the menu itself is represented here in
| | 07:01 | the Drop Zone Editor as well. This is
where you can change the background of
| | 07:04 | the menu, if you don't like iDVD's
background. And we can drag in still images
| | 07:08 | or videos for our menu background. So I
can drag in the Clouds movie into that menu.
| | 07:12 | So we end up with this.
| | 07:21 | Or we can just drag in a still image.
| | 07:26 | I'll drag in 0015, and now we have something
significantly different than the theme we started out with.
| | 07:40 | Now drop zones aren't really your thing
or if you like the look of the theme but
| | 07:43 | you just don't think the drop zones
aren't appropriate for your disk, you can
| | 07:45 | turn them all of. Just Click somewhere
within your menu to make sure nothing is
| | 07:49 | selected, then open the Menu Info
window, and then under Drop Zones just
| | 07:53 | uncheck Show Drop Zones and Related
Graphics. And we end up with just what you
| | 07:58 | see here: the background of the
menu and our buttons and other text.
| | 08:03 | And we still get motion when I Click
the Motion button. Now this is a little
| | 08:07 | weird because this theme has this
animated confetti that kind of looks like
| | 08:11 | snow, which makes it look like it's
snowing in Southern Utah. So this theme
| | 08:15 | probably would not work for what I'm
doing here. Let's pick a different theme.
| | 08:20 | I am going to go with Soft Frame, and
again we can open up the Menu Info panel.
| | 08:28 | We can choose to have drop zones or no
drop zones. This particular one has the
| | 08:33 | 1 drop zone. So by turning that off,
I just have this sort of gradiated
| | 08:36 | background. But again if I wanted to
change this, I'd just open the Drop Zone
| | 08:40 | Editor. In this case, there really is
no drop zone like we have seen in the
| | 08:43 | other themes. We only have
the main menu's drop zone.
| | 08:45 | So if I did want to customize this,
again I can just drag in one of my pages
| | 08:49 | like so, and now we have a completely
different background. I might need to
| | 08:54 | rearrange some text here, which I can
easily do. I would just line all these up.
| | 09:07 | And I'll just stick that up there.
| | 09:09 | So that's how we work with drop zones.
The important thing to bear in mind
| | 09:12 | about drop zones is that they are just
there for visual flair; they don't act
| | 09:15 | as links to other parts of your disk.
You can't add audio to them, and they are
| | 09:19 | not selectable by the people watching
your DVD. They are just for show, but
| | 09:22 | they do an incredible job of giving
your menus a really professional look.
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| Understanding themes| 00:00 | Before we move on to the next chapter
and start building an actual iDVD project
| | 00:04 | in earnest, I want to take a little
more time to talk some more about iDVD's
| | 00:07 | themes because there are a handful of important
things you should know about working with themes.
| | 00:11 | As we have seen, themes are
basically the dressing to your DVD project.
| | 00:15 | Ultimately, your goal is put a movie
on a DVD, but the themes are what give
| | 00:19 | your DVD its menus and its look and
feel. They are the first impression your
| | 00:22 | viewers are going to get unless you
decide to bypass themes all together which
| | 00:26 | I'll show you how to do
at the end of next chapter.
| | 00:28 | We have already seen that iDVD comes
with a ton of themes to choose from, and
| | 00:32 | you might have notice that each theme
has a little triangle next to it that you
| | 00:35 | can toggle open to see all the other
available menus in this family of themes.
| | 00:42 | So under Center Stage, we have got
the main Center Stage menu. We have a
| | 00:47 | Chapter menu, and we have an Extras
menu, and they each have a different look
| | 00:53 | but they come from the same theme. We'll see
the same sort of thing in all the other themes.
| | 00:59 | For instance, we have Cinema here. I
can toggle that open. There is the look
| | 01:03 | for the main Cinema theme, Chapters,
and Extras. To really keep your DVDs
| | 01:11 | looking professional, it's usually best
to stick with one family of themes, and
| | 01:15 | not to mix and match them within a
single project. iDVD will certainly let you
| | 01:19 | do this, but generally it's not a good
decision because drastically different
| | 01:22 | themes for each menu can be disorienting to your viewers,
and not all themes have multiple layouts or families.
| | 01:28 | All of these 7.0 and 6.0 themes have
families. But once you get into the Old
| | 01:33 | Themes, you will find a lot of themes
in here that don't have arrows next to
| | 01:37 | them. You can see some do but many
don't, and speaking of these older themes,
| | 01:47 | notice that some of the Old Themes are
currently grayed out. See how these are
| | 01:51 | sort of grayed out and unavailable right now.
| | 01:53 | I can select the ones that aren't
grayed out, like maybe Kids Theater,
| | 02:04 | but I can't select any of these grayed
out ones. And if I do, I get this message
| | 02:09 | because when you install iDVD, it
doesn't by default install every single theme
| | 02:13 | because themes take up a good amount
of space on your hard drive. And if you
| | 02:16 | never use iDVD, you will have
all this unused occupied space.
| | 02:19 | But if you do want to access to these
themes, just Click on one of the grayed
| | 02:22 | out themes, you will see this message
telling you that the theme is available
| | 02:25 | by installing the additional theme set.
And you can do so one of three ways.
| | 02:30 | You can Download Now to download the
themes from Apple's website, or you can
| | 02:34 | choose the Download Later, so that
the next time your Mac does a software
| | 02:38 | update check, it will list the theme
set as one of the downloads that are
| | 02:42 | available to you, or you can install from your
iLife DVD, if you installed iLife from a disc.
| | 02:47 | Notice that to install the additional
iDVD themes, it's telling you that you
| | 02:50 | must at least 700 MB of disc space
available. But if you do want to install
| | 02:54 | them, just pick one of these three choices and
Click OK. I'm just going to bypass that for now.
| | 02:57 | Now if you are concerned about the
amount of the space that the themes are
| | 03:01 | taking up on your hard drive, you can
move them to a second internal or even
| | 03:04 | external hard drive. If you do move
them to an external hard drive, just make
| | 03:08 | sure the drive is connected to your
Mac and powered on before you start iDVD.
| | 03:11 | Let me show you where iDVD keeps its
themes. I'm just going to hide iDVD for a
| | 03:17 | moment, and open up a Finder window. So
your iDVD themes are going to be found
| | 03:23 | on your main Macintosh hard drive,
inside the Library folder, inside a folder
| | 03:29 | called Application Support, and in here,
you will find iDVD and there are the themes.
| | 03:36 | Let me select that and choose Get Info,
and you can see that the Themes folder
| | 03:41 | even as it is right now is taking up
over 500 MB of space. If we had all of the
| | 03:46 | themes installed, we'd have over a GB
of space being taken up here. So if I
| | 03:50 | wanted to move these themes to an additional hard drive, and
I do have another hard drive in my Mac here, Macintosh HD B.
| | 03:55 | I will create a folder in there called
New Folder, and I call it iDVD themes to
| | 04:01 | just keep everything that's organized
here. And let's open up another window
| | 04:05 | here, a new Finder window, and I'll
go back in to find my themes, Macintosh
| | 04:10 | Hard Drive, Library, Application Support, iDVD, and
I'll just copy these themes over into my second hard drive.
| | 04:19 | Now if you are working along with me,
you don't need to move your themes.
| | 04:22 | I just want to show you how to do so
in case you ever need too. So our copies
| | 04:26 | have been made, and now I can take my
original themes folder and just drag it
| | 04:29 | to my Trash, and once I empty my
Trash, I'd have freed up that space.
| | 04:33 | Now because you are working with
files that are inside your Home Library
| | 04:36 | folder, you will be asked to provide
your Administrator Password here. All
| | 04:38 | right, so now my themes have been
moved to my second hard drive. Now if I go
| | 04:47 | back to iDVD, notice what has
happened here, my themes have pretty much
| | 04:52 | disappeared because iDVD
can't find them anymore.
| | 04:54 | So even if I go back to some of my 7.0
Themes and try to pick some of those,
| | 04:58 | you'll see things are all kind of
weird right now. I don't even see the theme
| | 05:09 | there or there or there. So iDVD does
not know where these themes currently are.
| | 05:17 | So I need to go to iDVD > Preferences, Advanced,
and I need to tell iDVD where to look for my themes.
| | 05:24 | So I'm going to Click Add,
Macintosh HD B in my case, and iDVD Themes,
| | 05:32 | Themes. I'll go ahead and close that.
Now I need to restart iDVD. I'm not going
| | 05:39 | to bother saving any changes because I
have just been playing around. And then
| | 05:46 | I'm going to open that project again.
You can see 'Loading themes' and now when
| | 05:54 | I pick some other themes, you can
see that iDVD knows exactly where those
| | 06:01 | themes are because I can see them all now.
| | 06:09 | So that's a little more info about
themes and how they work in iDVD. The last
| | 06:12 | thing I want to show you in this
chapter is how to customize themes and save
| | 06:16 | them, which we'll do in the next movie.
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| Creating and saving custom themes| 00:00 | As we have already seen iDVD has a
wide selection of themes to fit just about
| | 00:04 | any occasion, but chances are there
that you still want spend some time
| | 00:07 | customizing themes to suit your
particular needs. We have seen that you can
| | 00:10 | change the appearance of text and alter
the background images of the menus, and
| | 00:14 | you can also customize themes by adding
your own custom music or audio tracks,
| | 00:18 | or by changing the size and shapes of the
buttons that link to your sub-menus or movies.
| | 00:22 | We will see how you can these things
in the next chapter. The point is that
| | 00:25 | after you've spent all this time
customizing a theme, it would be a shame to
| | 00:28 | lose all of your work, or maybe
you've created a customized theme that you
| | 00:32 | think you will be able to use for
other projects. In either case, it's a good
| | 00:35 | idea to save your theme so you can bring it
up again later and apply to another project.
| | 00:40 | So let's go ahead and make some
changes here. I'm going to select, let's say,
| | 00:44 | the Soft Frame theme. And I'm just
going to use this as the basis for a
| | 00:49 | customized theme. So I'm going to
Click the Menu Info window to open that up.
| | 00:52 | I'm going to turn-off Drop Zones, so I
won't really need them for what I have in mind.
| | 00:56 | I am going to make sure if Free
Positioning is turned-on. So I can drag menu
| | 00:59 | items anywhere I want to, and let's
drag a picture in now. I'm going to go into
| | 01:04 | my exercise files, and under Bryce
Canyon Pics, I'm going to use the IMG_0015
| | 01:10 | image. So I'm going to turn-on my Drop
Zone Editor so I have access to the drop
| | 01:14 | zone for the menu's background and
I'm going drag the photo in there.
| | 01:23 | Now I should probably move some of
these menu items around. So I'm just going
| | 01:25 | to select my menu items, and drag them
over here, and I'll grab the Title and
| | 01:33 | maybe put that there. I should
probably turn on the TV Safe Area just to make
| | 01:36 | sure everything is in place, and what
do you know, I'd actually manage to stay
| | 01:39 | within the TV Safe Area. Oh, actually
the highlights for the menus are a little
| | 01:44 | bit outside, so I should probably move
those in a bit. Those are just colored
| | 01:48 | bars that will appear when somebody Clicks
on any of these to pick their menu items.
| | 01:52 | Now it's difficult the read the
Southern Utah text. So with that selected, I'm
| | 01:56 | going to Click the Info button again,
and that gives me the Text Info window.
| | 02:00 | So I'm going to open up the Color Well,
and I can choose colors from any of the
| | 02:03 | different color pickers here, but I
usually like to choose colors that are
| | 02:06 | already present in the theme I'm working with.
| | 02:08 | So I'm going to Click the magnifying
glass which gives me the ability to sample
| | 02:13 | colors from anywhere within my screen.
And I'm just going to grab some of this
| | 02:16 | dark reddish brown color. Here we go.
It looks pretty good. And I'm going to do
| | 02:23 | the same with the menu. So let's go
ahead and select those and instead of that
| | 02:27 | bright white, I think, I'll sample
this pale blue color that's in the clouds.
| | 02:34 | Here we go. That's kind of a little more
subtle. So this is looking pretty good to me.
| | 02:38 | So now I want to save this as a
customized theme which I think you will agree
| | 02:42 | looks nothing like the theme I started
out with. To do so, I'm going to choose
| | 02:45 | File > Save theme as Favorite. I'll
give it a name. In this case, I'll just
| | 02:50 | call it Southern Utah and I have the
choice here to check Shared for all users,
| | 02:54 | which means if I want other people who
might have accounts on my Mac to be able
| | 02:57 | to access this theme I just created when they
open iDVD, I would check Shared for all users.
| | 03:02 | Now I'm going to uncheck Replace
existing, because I don't want to replace the
| | 03:06 | existing theme that I selected. I
still may want to have access to the Soft
| | 03:10 | Frame theme just the way it is some
time in the future. So with my theme named,
| | 03:15 | and I'm going to be sharing with all
users, I'll Click OK. And let's go ahead
| | 03:20 | and turn-off the TV Safe Area. And now
I'll just pick another theme like Center
| | 03:24 | Stage, just to drastically change the
look, and now when I go to my Themes
| | 03:29 | menu, I can choose Favorites, and right
here on to Favorites, here is Southern
| | 03:33 | Utah, I can select that, and
here is my Custom theme again.
| | 03:36 | The really cool thing here is that
iDVD knows where things like menu items
| | 03:39 | should go, because I saved the theme
with some menu items in. So even if I come
| | 03:42 | in here and delete these all out of here
... If I choose to add more menu items,
| | 03:47 | you can see that they all appear in
exactly the same place as my original menu
| | 03:51 | items because I had saved this
theme with menu items present.
| | 03:54 | That's something to keep in mind when
you are creating customized themes. And
| | 03:58 | you don't have to customize the themes
to save it as a Favorite. If there are a
| | 04:01 | handful of themes that you find
yourself using all the time just the way they
| | 04:03 | are but maybe they are scattered
through the 7.0 Themes, or the 6.0 Themes, or
| | 04:08 | the Old Themes, you can put them all into
the Favorites area by selecting each one.
| | 04:12 | Let me just go ahead and select Revolution,
and then choosing File > Save theme as Favorite.
| | 04:23 | Now you will have to keep the name
Favorite in the name because there already
| | 04:26 | is a theme called Revolution Main,
unless you want to rename this entire theme
| | 04:29 | entirely but I'm fine with leaving
the word Favorite at the end there.
| | 04:32 | And I probably don't want to share this
for all users because I haven't change the
| | 04:35 | Revolution theme, and all those users
already will have access to this theme
| | 04:38 | just the way it is.
| | 04:38 | So I'll Click OK. And when I look
into under Favorites now, there is the
| | 04:43 | Revolution theme. So this is a good way
to keep all of your favorite themes in
| | 04:47 | one place if you find yourself using
different themes from the different
| | 04:50 | collections. Of course, you could
have access to all the themes at once by
| | 04:54 | selecting all, but that's means you
actually have to scroll through all the
| | 04:57 | themes that you don't want to use,
and there are a lot of them in there.
| | 05:00 | So it's much easier just to pick the
ones that you want to use frequently and
| | 05:03 | put them in Favorites. Now if you want
to remove the theme from the Favorites
| | 05:06 | menu, it's a little trickier because
there is no direct way to do it from
| | 05:09 | within iDVD. So you have to remove it manually.
| | 05:12 | Now where you are going to find your
favorite themes depends on whether you
| | 05:15 | chose to share the themes with all
users or just with yourself. If you chose to
| | 05:19 | share the themes with all users, you
will find the theme on your main hard
| | 05:22 | drive, under Users, under Shared, iDVD and
Favorites. So here is the Southern Utah theme.
| | 05:32 | So if I wanted to get rid of that
particular theme as a favorite, I can just
| | 05:35 | drag this to Trash, but I'm going to
hold it for now. And if you didn't have
| | 05:39 | Shared for all users checked when you
save the theme as a favorite or if you've
| | 05:42 | checked Replace existing, you will
find the theme in your Home folder in
| | 05:46 | Library, Application Support, iDVD,
Favorites and here is Revolution Main.
| | 05:53 | I will go ahead and delete that
because I don't really need that in my
| | 05:55 | favorites and come back to iDVD.
Now it still shows the theme here but
| | 06:02 | if I quit iDVD, I'll go ahead and save
that and open it up again. Notice that when
| | 06:09 | I go back to Favorites, the Revolution
Main Favorite theme is no longer located here.
| | 06:15 | So in either case, if you want to get a
theme out of Favorites, just locate it
| | 06:18 | on your hard drive and drag it to the trash, and that's how
you save and remove customized or favorite themes in iDVD.
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2. Building an iDVD ProjectCreating a new project from scratch| 00:00 | In the previous chapter we looked at
the important and fundamental things you
| | 00:03 | need to know about iDVD before
getting started with building DVDs. In this
| | 00:07 | chapter we'll start from scratch and build a
complete DVD project from beginning to end.
| | 00:11 | So what we are going to do is create a
DVD containing a main movie, a shorter
| | 00:15 | movie of let's call them deleted
scenes and we'll also add a slideshow of
| | 00:19 | photos. And each of these three items
will be accessible from the main menu of
| | 00:23 | our DVD. In addition we'll take
advantage of iDVD's ability to also include
| | 00:27 | DVD-ROM content on your disk, which is nice if you also
want to provide files to the people viewing your disk.
| | 00:32 | For example, if you want your viewers
to be able to print out copies of the
| | 00:35 | photos you used in your DVD slideshow,
you can place high resolution copies on
| | 00:39 | the disk that can be accessed when
the DVD is inserted into a computer.
| | 00:43 | Now I'm going to be working with
movies and photos that are contained in the
| | 00:45 | folder on my Desktop. Of course, with
iDVD being part of the iLife 09 suite you
| | 00:51 | can also import movies and photos
directly from iMovie and iPhoto using iDVD's
| | 00:55 | built-in Media Browser. And I'll cover
how to do that in this chapter as well.
| | 00:59 | But for now we are going to be work
with iDVD as a standalone application as
| | 01:02 | much as possible. Again, when you are
working with iDVD, you still need to have
| | 01:06 | media files that you might have
created in say iMovie and iPhoto. But I want
| | 01:10 | you to see that you can use iDVD
completely by itself to create your DVDs even
| | 01:14 | if you are working media files that
weren't created in other iLife applications
| | 01:18 | or that maybe were given to you on a disk.
| | 01:20 | So the first thing we are going to do
is create a new project. So I'm going to
| | 01:23 | choose File > New and I'll save this
to my Desktop and I'm going to create a
| | 01:29 | new folder to contain my project and
its files, and I'm just going to call this
| | 01:33 | folder Southern Utah DVD and for the
project file itself, I'm going to call
| | 01:40 | this Southern Utah Trip. And because
the majority of the footage shot for this
| | 01:45 | DVD was in the Widescreen aspect ratio, I'm going to
keep Widescreen selected and then I'll Click Create.
| | 01:54 | And that's really all there is to it.
You can see the title of this project is
| | 01:57 | now called Southern Utah Trip. That
folder has been created here on my Desktop
| | 02:02 | and there is the project saved in that
folder. And right now I'm just looking
| | 02:06 | at the default theme, which is Revolution Main. Again,
you can find that in your 7.0 Themes right here at the top.
| | 02:13 | But I don't think this is the theme I
want to use for this project, so let's
| | 02:16 | just browse through here and see we
can find some other themes. Sunflower is
| | 02:21 | probably little too cutie for what we
want. Don't really need Vintage Vinyl.
| | 02:24 | I think I'm going to go with Modern, kind of like the
look of that, just nice clean lines, couple of Drop Zones.
| | 02:32 | Now while we are here, let's
customize the menu a bit with some of our own
| | 02:34 | photos. I'm going to open the Drop
Zone Editor, and I can see there are three
| | 02:39 | Drop Zones to fill. Now again you
could drag movies into the Drop Zone if you
| | 02:43 | wanted to, but I'm just going to use
photos here, because I know this theme
| | 02:46 | actually does some nice motion and
transitions with items you drag into the Drop Zones.
| | 02:50 | So I'm going to open up my exercise
files folder and I'll just pick a couple of
| | 02:54 | images here. Let's go with 01, looks
good. 02, now that's more of a vertical
| | 03:05 | photo and since this is a horizontal
layout I'm going to pick a different
| | 03:08 | photo. Maybe 08. It's a little bit
better. And I'll go ahead and use 15.
| | 03:19 | So let's check this out and see how it
will look when we actually play the DVD.
| | 03:23 | So I'm going to Click the Motion menu.
| | 03:26 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:34 | So you can see we have these nice
| | 03:36 | crossfade transitions as the pictures
sort of slide across the background.
| | 03:42 | (Music playing.)
| | 03:48 | That third picture doesn't really work
for me; it's mostly just blank sky here.
| | 03:51 | So let's go ahead and open up the
Drop Zone Editor again.
| | 03:53 | I'll just find something with some mountains
in the background. That looks better.
| | 03:59 | Now let's pick that up again. I'm just going to move the
playhead back a bit, so I can see that transition.
| | 04:04 | (Music plays.)
| | 04:09 | Yeah, I like that a lot better.
| | 04:10 | (Music plays.)
| | 04:17 | And the music fades out. And you can see
| | 04:21 | the playhead went back and we are just
going through the whole loop again.
| | 04:23 | So that background music will probably
have to be changed. I don't really think
| | 04:27 | it's appropriate for the DVD I'm
creating here, but we'll take care of that in
| | 04:29 | a little bit. Now we have noticed
that when the playhead reaches the end of
| | 04:34 | menu loop, it goes back to the
beginning like that. But it doesn't really go
| | 04:41 | back to the very beginning; it actually
skips the parts of the playback bar at
| | 04:46 | the beginning and end that
have these hash marks in them.
| | 04:48 | So you can see we have that at the
end of the playback bar and at the
| | 04:51 | beginning. And these are the menu's
intro and outro areas and they only play
| | 04:55 | when you enter or leave the screen.
I'm going to grab the playhead and drag it
| | 04:59 | all the way to the left and play. You
kind of already saw the effect that's
| | 05:02 | going to occur. Let me go
ahead and play this for you.
| | 05:04 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:09 | So we kind of have that nice wipe
effect that introduces this menu. And if I
| | 05:14 | drag all the way to the right, now I
can't play this for you because it's just
| | 05:16 | going to loop, but I can continue to
drag to the right and you can see the
| | 05:19 | effect that will happen at the end. So you can see it
just kind of wipes from left to right and fades to black.
| | 05:26 | So when someone Clicks on one of the
menu items that we are eventually going to
| | 05:29 | add here, they will see that outro
transition. When they first enter this menu,
| | 05:33 | they will first see the wipe in and
then they will see the three Drop Zone
| | 05:37 | photos. And if they don't Click anything,
once the playhead reaches the end of
| | 05:41 | the bar it will go right back to the
beginning, of course skipping the intro
| | 05:45 | animation and just continue in this
endless loop. Then when someone actually
| | 05:49 | Clicks one of the menu items,
then they will see that outro.
| | 05:52 | So having these intro and outro
sequences is a nice way to ease in and out of
| | 05:56 | the menus on your DVD rather than
just having the menu suddenly appear and
| | 06:00 | disappear. You can turn the intro and
outro animations on and off as you like
| | 06:03 | by checking and unchecking these boxes
on either end. Or you can Click the Info
| | 06:09 | button to open the Menu Info panel,
and here under Background you can also
| | 06:14 | check and uncheck the Intro and Outro.
I kind of like having them in there,
| | 06:19 | because they do nicely easy
you in and out of the menus.
| | 06:22 | And while we are in here, this is also
where you can adjust the Loop Duration.
| | 06:26 | The loop is the portion of the menu
animation that starts after the intro and
| | 06:29 | ends right before the outro. So for
example, if you feel that the pace of the
| | 06:33 | menu's rotation through the three Drop
Zone images is too slow, you can shorten
| | 06:37 | the Loop Duration just by dragging
the slider to the left. You can see that
| | 06:41 | significantly shortened the
length of the loop animation there.
| | 06:44 | So if I play now, you can see there is
a much faster cycle through the three
| | 06:51 | different photos. But I like it the way
it is, so I'm just going to leave that
| | 06:58 | all the way at 30 seconds. And I'll
go ahead and close the Menu Info panel.
| | 07:02 | One more thing we need to do here; we
are going to take the default title and
| | 07:05 | rename that. So again, I'll Click it
once to select it, then Click it again to
| | 07:09 | make the text editable, and we'll just
change this to Southern Utah Trip. And
| | 07:14 | I'm fine with the current font face and
size, so I'll just leave that the way it is.
| | 07:19 | So we've now created a new project and
added some pictures to the Drop Zones to
| | 07:22 | customize the theme a bit and I have changed
the title to be appropriate to this project.
| | 07:26 | Next, let's tackle the music that's part of
this theme. We'll do that in the very next movie.
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| Adding music to a menu| 00:00 | In the previous movie, I created a new
iDVD project, I chose a theme and added
| | 00:05 | some photos into the theme's drop zones,
and I customized the title. And we saw
| | 00:09 | that this particular theme like many of
the themes comes with its own built-in music.
| | 00:13 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:19 | And that's probably a little
too smooth jazzy for my Southern Utah DVD
| | 00:23 | for my taste. So what I would like to
do in this video is show you how to add
| | 00:26 | your own music, or at least
different music to a DVD menu.
| | 00:30 | Again, many of iDVD's themes come with
built-in music, while others don't, but
| | 00:34 | adding your own music whether you are
replacing existing music or adding music
| | 00:37 | to a silent theme is pretty easy to do.
So I want to show you a couple of extra
| | 00:40 | things along the way. First, I'm going
to open in Menu Info window, and under
| | 00:45 | Audio, I can see that the default
audio file used in this theme is called
| | 00:48 | Modern-Main and that it runs 36 seconds long.
| | 00:51 | We also have the Menu Volume slider
under Audio. So if I wanted my menu to have
| | 00:55 | no music, I could simply drag that
slider all the way to the left, but
| | 00:59 | what I really want to do here
is just change the current music.
| | 01:01 | So I'm just going to drag
that back to the middle.
| | 01:03 | Now first of all, I could go to my
Media Browser in iDVD, and under Audio in
| | 01:08 | iTunes, I have access to my entire
iTunes Library, and all we need to do here
| | 01:13 | is browse through and find the song I
want to add to my DVD project and drag to
| | 01:17 | the audio portion of the Menu Info
window. You can see a little plus sign
| | 01:20 | appears there. I'm not
going to do that right now.
| | 01:22 | We also have access to our GarageBand
music. So if you have composed your own
| | 01:26 | music in GarageBand, you can get to
your GarageBand songs from right here,
| | 01:30 | though in my case, I don't really have
anything in my GarageBand songs that
| | 01:32 | I want to use here, and the same thing
goes for my iTunes songs. There is really
| | 01:35 | nothing in there that I want to use right now.
| | 01:37 | Let me show you a cool trick. I'm going
to open up GarageBand, which of course
| | 01:42 | comes as part of the iLife '09 Suite.
And GarageBand comes with an installation
| | 01:46 | of a ton of built-in royalty-free songs
and jingles you can use to create audio
| | 01:50 | projects. And you can access of this
music from both GarageBand and iMovie but
| | 01:55 | you can't get to those
songs from iDVD by default.
| | 01:57 | So I'm going to create a new project
here. I'm just going to select Piano.
| | 02:00 | I'm not really going to be concerned about
any of the settings here. I just want to
| | 02:04 | have a GarageBand song open so I can
show you where to find the music. So I'm
| | 02:07 | just going to save this to my Desktop. I'll leave
the name My Song 5.band, that's fine, and Click Create.
| | 02:17 | So here in GarageBand, I currently
have the Loop browser open. If you don't
| | 02:20 | have yours open, that's just the little
eyeball icon that you see in the lower
| | 02:22 | right hand corner. And in here, I'm
going to select the Podcast button and from
| | 02:28 | the categories of different Podcast
sounds, I'm going to select Jingles.
| | 02:32 | And you can see under All Effects, I
currently have 230 Jingles to choose from,
| | 02:37 | and down below, you can browse
through these jingles. These are just short
| | 02:40 | self-contained musical pieces, and
you can see that many of them have three
| | 02:43 | different versions; Long, Medium, and
Short which makes it easier to select a
| | 02:48 | musical piece that fits
the length of your project.
| | 02:50 | And under the Length column, you can
see exactly how long the piece is.
| | 02:54 | So I have some of that are 8 seconds long,
some of that are 17, some of that are 58,
| | 02:58 | and so on. To sample any of these
pieces, just Click them.
| | 03:02 | (Music playing.)
| | 03:31 | Now depending on your installation of GarageBand,
and whether you have installed things like Jam Packs,
| | 03:35 | which are additional loops for GarageBand,
you may have fewer or more loops than what I have here.
| | 03:40 | But in any case, if browsing through
hundreds of songs is too much for you, you
| | 03:44 | can Click on the different genres
that are available to narrow down your
| | 03:47 | selections. So I can just choose
Electronic to browse through just 32 pieces.
| | 03:53 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:00 | Or go to Jazz.
| | 04:01 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:06 | Let's try some Country.
| | 04:08 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:17 | And to stop the sample, just Click it again.
| | 04:20 | I kind of do like River Walk song.
| | 04:22 | So to get this into my iDVD project,
I could drag this into my GarageBand
| | 04:27 | project like so and then export it as
a song but since I'm not planning on
| | 04:31 | making any changes to the song or
adding anything else to it, there is really
| | 04:35 | no sense in doing all that work,
since this file already exist on my Mac
| | 04:37 | exactly the way I want to use it.
| | 04:39 | So how do we get this song into iDVD?
Well there are a couple of ways. I'm
| | 04:42 | going to quit GarageBand. I don't
need to save anything. And I think the
| | 04:48 | easiest way to find a song that's
stored in the GarageBand Music Library is to
| | 04:51 | use your Mac's Spotlight Search feature,
and this allows me to search my entire
| | 04:55 | Mac and in this case, I'm searching for
a file called River Walk. I'm going to
| | 05:01 | choose Show All, and here in this
list I can find that GarageBand track.
| | 05:05 | Now if the name of the track you are
looking for happens to bring up a lot of
| | 05:09 | different results, and you are having
trouble finding it, you can sort your
| | 05:12 | search results by Kind and then just
find the Apple Loop. That will be the
| | 05:16 | track from GarageBand. Now I'm going
Right-Click on the search result, or if
| | 05:19 | you are using a Mac with a single
button mouse, you can hold down the Ctrl key
| | 05:23 | on your keyboard and Click to
bring up this contextual menu.
| | 05:25 | I am going choose Open Enclosing Folder.
This opens the folder on my computer
| | 05:30 | where that audio file is located,
and you can see it's contained in this
| | 05:33 | Jingles folder. Just as a side note here,
if you hold down Apple or Command key
| | 05:37 | on your keyboard and Click the Folder
icon at the top of the window, that will
| | 05:40 | show you the exact path to that folder.
| | 05:42 | So this Jingles folder is located my
hard drive, in the folder called Library,
| | 05:46 | in Audio, in Apple Loops, in Apple, in
iLife Sound Effects, and Jingles. Note
| | 05:50 | that you really need to know that
because we are able to find this folder
| | 05:53 | pretty easily using the Spotlight feature.
| | 05:56 | So I'm going to go find that River
Walk track, it's in alphabetical order.
| | 06:01 | There it is. And to use this in my iDVD
project, I simply drag it into my Menu
| | 06:08 | Info panel and there it is. Let's go ahead and
bring iDVD to front again, and play this for you.
| | 06:15 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:25 | So now I have something a little more
upbeat for my DVD but you might have
| | 06:28 | noticed that it's taking a lot longer
for the playhead to travel across the
| | 06:32 | entire bar, and the motion of the
photos in the drop zone has really slowed down,
| | 06:36 | and I have lost the checkbox next
to the Outro portion of the playback bar.
| | 06:41 | So what's going on here is, if you
notice in the Menu Info window, the Loop
| | 06:46 | Duration slider has now been set
to 1 minute 21 seconds, which is the
| | 06:51 | approximate length of that River Walk
song. So by adding this audio file,
| | 06:54 | I have stretched out the Loop Duration,
| | 06:56 | and I really probably don't want a menu
that's a minute and 20 seconds long.
| | 07:00 | So let's drag that slider back to
about say 20 seconds. And let's add the
| | 07:05 | Outro animation back in. You can see
that puts the hash marks back at the end
| | 07:09 | of bar. And let's play this again.
I would go and close this Menu Info window
| | 07:13 | so you can actually see this.
| | 07:14 | (Music plays.)
| | 07:18 | So the pictures are now sliding through
the drop zones a lot faster again.
| | 07:21 | (Music plays.)
| | 07:25 | I'll just let this run to the end of the bar.
| | 07:27 | (Music plays.)
| | 07:35 | So we heard that nice little fade
| | 07:37 | towards the end of the bar there and
if you recall back, in the previous
| | 07:40 | chapter, I showed you if that if you
went to iDVD > Preferences, under General,
| | 07:45 | you can check Fade volume out at end of
menu loop because this particular song
| | 07:49 | as we now know is over a minute long
but the menu loop is only about 20 seconds
| | 07:52 | long. So to prevent the song from
being abruptly cut off before it leads back
| | 07:56 | to the beginning, I just leave Fade
volume out at end of menu loop checked. So
| | 08:00 | that iDVD will add that nice audio fade.
| | 08:04 | So the process of adding music to a
menu in iDVD really is just about either
| | 08:08 | dragging a song out of your iTunes or
GarageBand Library from the built-in
| | 08:11 | Media Browser or dragging the file in
from any other location on your Mac.
| | 08:15 | I just wanted to make sure that you
knew where you could find a bunch a free
| | 08:18 | music that's already installed on Mac
that you might not have known about.
| | 08:22 | Now if you do like having access to
these Jingles but you don't want to go
| | 08:25 | through the entire GarageBand browsing
process each time you are looking for
| | 08:28 | some music, you can make this
Jingles folder or any other folder for that
| | 08:31 | matter searchable from iDVD. To do so,
Click the Folders icon at the top of the
| | 08:36 | Finder window, it's sometimes called
the Proxy icon, and drag it into the audio
| | 08:40 | section of the iDVD Media Browser. That
creates a folder called Folders, and in there,
| | 08:47 | I'll find my Jingles folder.
| | 08:49 | And now I can browse and preview all
of the songs contained within it.
| | 08:57 | (Music plays.)
| | 09:08 | And again, these are all songs that
came with iLife anyway, but you can't get
| | 09:11 | to them by default from iDVD. And again,
this method works for any folder on
| | 09:14 | your Mac. So if you have other folders
containing music or audio files, just
| | 09:18 | drag them into the Audio browser in
iDVD to make them easily accessible. So
| | 09:22 | that's how we add our own
audio files to our iDVD menus.
| | 09:26 | Adding your own music is a great way
to really personalize the stock iDVD
| | 09:29 | themes and really make them more of
a reflection of your own taste and
| | 09:32 | personality. I must go and do a little
bit of clean up here. I'll get rid of
| | 09:37 | that. I don't need that GarageBand
song which I'll drag to the Trash.
| | 09:41 | So I think we are finally ready to
start adding some of our movies to this DVD
| | 09:47 | project, which is sort of the point of creating the
DVD in the first place. So we'll look how to that next.
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| Adding movies| 00:00 | What we've essentially done so far with
this project is create the wrapper for
| | 00:03 | our media. iDVD is really about
packaging your movies and other media whether
| | 00:08 | you created the movies in iMovie or
some other editing program into a nice
| | 00:12 | container that makes it easy for your
viewers to access your media. So let's
| | 00:15 | start adding actual content to our DVD project.
| | 00:18 | In my exercise files folder, I've a
file in here called Southern Utah, which is
| | 00:26 | a movie I created in iMovie and
exported. Again, I'll be talking about how to
| | 00:30 | get movies from iMovie into iDVD a
little bit later, but for now you just need
| | 00:33 | to know this movie is sitting here in
my exercise files folder. This is going
| | 00:38 | to be for lack of a better term, the main
feature or the future presentation of my DVD.
| | 00:42 | Now to add this to my DVD, I could go
to File > Import > Video, but who uses
| | 00:50 | menu commands when you could just
drag something in? I'm going to grab that
| | 00:53 | video file and just drag it into my
iDVD project. Now I'm going to make sure
| | 00:57 | I don't drag it into the drop zone or
else iDVD will think I want to make this
| | 01:01 | movie a drop zone movie and display it
in a loop here in the menu, but I want
| | 01:04 | to make this movie the actual content
of the DVD. So I'm going to drag it up
| | 01:08 | above the drop zone into this blank
area and release, and iDVD automatically
| | 01:13 | creates a menu item for it. This is
what my viewers will Click to start
| | 01:17 | Now you might want to rename this,
especially since it might be confusing that
| | 01:22 | I have a title called Southern Utah
Trip and the video itself is called
| | 01:24 | Southern Utah, so maybe I'll Click
it once and then Click it again.
| | 01:28 | Then I could call it something like Play
Main Video. That way when this menu appears,
| | 01:34 | all my users' DVD players don't know
exactly what to do with that button.
| | 01:37 | That's really all there is to adding
a video to your DVD. If that's all I
| | 01:41 | wanted to add to my DVD I can Click
the Burn button and create the final DVD
| | 01:45 | from here. But of course, I'm going to be doing a
little more to this DVD before we're ready to burn it.
| | 01:50 | But just to show you how this will work,
I'll Click the Play button to preview
| | 01:54 | this project as if it were in my DVD player.
| | 01:56 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:57 | So we saw that nice opening animation.
| | 01:59 | My button appears and it's
highlighted because it is the only button
| | 02:02 | available on the menu. So I'll Click it
and then when I Click it you'll see
| | 02:06 | that Outro animation occurs. There
it goes and now it's playing my video.
| | 02:14 | (Music plays.)
| | 02:15 | Again, this is just a video
I put together in iMovie.
| | 02:28 | (Music plays.)
| | 02:39 | When I'm done previewing,
| | 02:40 | I can just Click the Stop button
and go back to the iDVD interface.
| | 02:46 | So adding a movie to your iDVD project
is a simple matter of dragging it into a
| | 02:50 | non-drop zone area of your DVD menu.
Now let me also mention that if you have
| | 02:54 | iMovie projects or movies in the
Movies folder found in your Home folder, you
| | 02:58 | can get to them from the Media Browser
under Movies and in here you'll see your
| | 03:04 | collection of iMovie movies. Now some
of them can't be used right away. You can
| | 03:08 | see the message here. It says, "This
iMovie project can't be used because it
| | 03:11 | hasn't been prepared for sharing yet."
I'll be talking about how to set up your
| | 03:14 | iMovie movies for use in iDVD in
the last movie of this chapter.
| | 03:19 | But under Movies we can also access any
movies in our Home movie folder, in our
| | 03:24 | iTunes library and if I have movies
in, say, my iPhoto library, my iPhoto
| | 03:28 | library will show up in here as well.
For me, I know that I do, in my personal
| | 03:32 | Mac at home, I do have a lot of movies
in my iPhoto library because I take a
| | 03:37 | lot of videos of my son with my Digital
Still Camera and those movies end up in
| | 03:40 | iPhoto when I import my pictures. So I can easily
access them here in iDVD from the Media Browser.
| | 03:45 | If you have movies in your copy of
iTunes, you can select them from here as
| | 03:48 | well. The one exception is you can't
import into iDVD any copyrighted content
| | 03:53 | that you might have purchased from the
iTunes store, like TV shows or movies.
| | 03:56 | iDVD is purposely designed so you
can't burn that kind of stuff to a DVD.
| | 04:01 | Just like I could do with music as we
saw on the previous movie, if I have any
| | 04:04 | other folders on my Mac where I store
movies, I can drag those folders into the
| | 04:09 | Media Browser under Movies here in
iDVD so I can get to them quickly and
| | 04:12 | easily. Alternately, you can go to
iDVD, Preferences, to Movies, and under
| | 04:18 | "Look for my movies in these folders
,"you can Click Add then hunt for any
| | 04:22 | other folders on your Mac that contain movies
you might want to use in your iDVD projects.
| | 04:30 | So now we've added the main feature to
our DVD. If I had any other movies that
| | 04:34 | I wanted to have available right off
the main menu, I mean, if I wanted other
| | 04:38 | videos that would be Clickable from
right here in the main menu, I could just
| | 04:41 | drag them in like I did
with the Southern Utah video.
| | 04:45 | But I've a folder in my exercise files
of deleted scenes and these are three separate movies.
| | 04:50 | I'd like to create a sub-menu in my DVD project for
those movies. So I'll show you how to do that, next.
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| Adding submenus| 00:00 | I have in my exercise files folder,
a folder called deleted scenes, which
| | 00:04 | contains three short movies that I
also want to include on my final DVD disc.
| | 00:08 | If I wanted to make these accessible
from the main menu of my DVD, I would
| | 00:12 | simply select all three items and
drag them into my project. Now I have
| | 00:20 | Clickable buttons to play all three
movies along with the button to play my
| | 00:23 | main video. So Double-Clicking any
of these buttons plays that movie.
| | 00:34 | Now we'll stop that and we can kind of
see why those scenes were deleted.
| | 00:38 | But that's not what I wanted to do with
these movies, I'm going to select these and
| | 00:41 | just delete them out of here. Note
that iDVD keeps the button centered and
| | 00:45 | organized because Snap to grid is
turned on, which is a good thing in this case
| | 00:50 | because I don't want these
buttons stand up all over the place.
| | 00:53 | So instead of dragging all three of
these movies into my main menu, I'd rather
| | 00:56 | create a separate menu called Deleted
Scenes, so my viewers will know exactly
| | 01:00 | what these clips are. Because if I just
drag them into my main menu like I did,
| | 01:04 | those deleted scenes are pretty much
giving the same weight and importance as
| | 01:07 | my main video and I want my main video to be the
primary attraction or focal point of this menu.
| | 01:13 | So there are couple of ways of creating
what's called a sub-menu and a sub-menu
| | 01:17 | is just simply a way to keep your DVD
organized. Instead of doing a whole bunch
| | 01:20 | of buttons and items onto your main menu,
create sub-menus to organize all the
| | 01:24 | elements and extra
materials into their own areas.
| | 01:27 | One way to do this is to Click
the Add button and select Add
| | 01:30 | Submenu. You can see it creates a
button called My Submenu, so I'm going to
| | 01:34 | select that and change its name to
Deleted Scenes. Double-Clicking that menu
| | 01:42 | takes me to this new menu page, one
level down from my main menu and I can drag
| | 01:46 | in my movies to this menu. There
they are and I probably have to do some
| | 01:54 | rearranging here. I'll put that there
and that there to put them in order.
| | 01:59 | I can access these deleted scenes here again
just by Double-Clicking to take a look at them.
| | 02:07 | So that's one way to create a sub-menu.
Let's go back to the main menu by
| | 02:10 | Clicking the Back button and all sub-
menus do have Back buttons to take you
| | 02:14 | back to the main menu. I'm going to delete this sub
-menu so I can show you another way to create one.
| | 02:19 | Now if you find yourself in a situation
where you have added a bunch of movies
| | 02:22 | to your main menu, let's do this
again, and then you change your mind and
| | 02:28 | realize you'd rather relegate them to
a sub-menu, there is no need to delete
| | 02:32 | the buttons or start from scratch.
Simply hold down the Shift key and then
| | 02:35 | select the items you want to add to
your sub-menu and then choose Project >
| | 02:41 | New Menu from Selection. So that's
another way to create a sub-menu.
| | 02:45 | Again, I'll select this and change
this to Deleted Scenes. And now when I
| | 02:51 | Double-Click that button, I go to the
sub-menu again and I still need to do a
| | 02:55 | little bit of rearranging to get those
in order, and there is my sub-menu. Your
| | 03:00 | sub-menus are pretty much like any
other menu you work with, you can open up
| | 03:03 | the Drop Zone Editor to see the drop
zones and add different photos or videos
| | 03:07 | if you so choose. Let me close that.
This sub-menu also has motion built-in
| | 03:12 | just like the main menu.
| | 03:13 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:15 | It's playing the same song
from my main menu as well.
| | 03:17 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:21 | You can see we have a slideshow going on here.
| | 03:23 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:27 | We can customize this menu just like we
could the main menu. So if I open up my
| | 03:30 | Menu Info pane, maybe I want to make
the Loop Duration a little bit shorter,
| | 03:35 | turn that Outro back on, let's see how
that looks.
| | 03:41 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:44 | So, again the music fades out
and then it loops back to beginning.
| | 03:47 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:52 | So, you can see we have the same
options available in sub-menus as we have when
| | 03:55 | working with the main menu. Of course,
as you probably rename this menu title
| | 03:59 | as Deleted Scenes as well, and there we go.
Click the Back button to go back to the main menu.
| | 04:07 | So, that's how we create a sub-menu, and again, it's
just a good way to keep the contents of your DVD organized.
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| Adding a scene selection menu| 00:00 | In this movie I'd like to show you how
to create a Scene Selection menu for the
| | 00:03 | movies on your DVD. I'm sure you are
familiar with what I'm talking about if
| | 00:07 | you've ever played a
commercial DVD on a TV before.
| | 00:09 | A Scene Selection menu is a menu that
lets you jump to a specific point or
| | 00:13 | scene of the movie. This can be
especially useful if you have a long movie and
| | 00:17 | you want to offer your viewers a way to jump right
to a particular point they might want to skip to.
| | 00:21 | In iDVD it's actually very easy to
create a Scene Selection menu, but it's kind
| | 00:25 | of limited. Let me show you what I mean.
As we have seen right now this Play
| | 00:28 | Main Video button takes me right into
my movies. So if I Double-Click that,
| | 00:32 | that's the same as Clicking Play on my DVD
player and you can see it's now playing the video.
| | 00:37 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:39 | But I want to add chapter markers or
scene selections. To do so, I Click once
| | 00:43 | to select the button for the movie I
want to add the scene selection for. Then
| | 00:47 | I choose Advanced > Create Chapter
Markers for Movie. Now this is the
| | 00:52 | limitation of creating chapter
markers in iDVD. You can only have iDVD
| | 00:56 | automatically create chapter markers
every X number of minutes. You cannot
| | 01:00 | browse to specific points in your movie
and manually add markers at points that
| | 01:04 | make sense, which to me is pretty
unfortunate and can create some nonsensical
| | 01:08 | scene selection buttons which depending on your movie,
may drop you right into the middle or end of a scene.
| | 01:14 | Fortunately, you can use iMovie '09 to
create chapter markers in your movie at
| | 01:17 | specific locations and then import the
file directly into iDVD and then have
| | 01:22 | iDVD automatically create a Scene
Selection menu based on those chapter markers
| | 01:25 | you manually created. And I'll
definitely be showing you how to do that later on.
| | 01:28 | But for now this is how you create a
Scene Selection menu in iDVD, which is a
| | 01:33 | quick and easy way to add places in
your video for your viewers to jump to.
| | 01:36 | I think one chapter per minute is probably a good
amount of time to jump ahead, but that's entirely up to you.
| | 01:42 | So I'll Click OK. Notice that it's
changed name of the button to Southern Utah.
| | 01:47 | It took the original name of the
video file that we brought in here, called
| | 01:50 | Southern Utah and change the name of
the menu, which to me is okay because the
| | 01:54 | button previously said, Play Main Video,
but now when I Double-Click the menu,
| | 01:58 | it doesn't play the Main Video
anymore, it takes me to the sub-menu.
| | 02:02 | And I have two options in here, Play
Movie, which now when I Double-Click that
| | 02:05 | will play the movie.
| | 02:10 | But I have also the menu
that's been created called Scene Selection.
| | 02:13 | And when I Double-Click that,
now I have a scene menu labeled
| | 02:17 | scenes 1, 2, 3 and I have got Beginning,
Chapter 2, and Chapter 3. Now these
| | 02:22 | are just buttons, so I can rename these.
So I might want to call this Chapter 1
| | 02:28 | instead of Beginning or I could name it
after what the scene is about. In this
| | 02:32 | case, maybe sunset. Chapter 2 could be called
clouds, Chapter 3 could be called sunrise, and so on.
| | 02:37 | I can even rename the title here
instead of Scenes maybe I would prefer the
| | 02:41 | word Chapters. But the point is
iDVD automatically generated the Scene
| | 02:48 | Selection menu for me and just like any
other Scene Selection menu, I have the
| | 02:51 | ability to edit its Drop Zones, or
open its Menu Info window, and play with
| | 02:57 | things like the Loop Duration. Or if I
want the outro in there, and it's just a
| | 03:01 | regular menu, and I can Click the Back
button to work my way back to the main menu.
| | 03:06 | So there it is. Again, it's not the
greatest way to create chapter markers, but
| | 03:10 | at least you can quickly create a
means for your viewers to skim through your
| | 03:13 | movie this way. And again, I'll be
showing you how to manually create chapter
| | 03:16 | markers at specific
locations using iMovie later on.
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| Adding a title menu button| 00:00 | In the previous movie I created a
scene selection menu, which we get to by
| | 00:04 | Double-Clicking our main video button,
Double-Clicking Scene Selection.
| | 00:09 | This took me through a series of sub-menus
and each sub-menu you create in iDVD
| | 00:14 | always contains a back button
somewhere to take you to the previous menu.
| | 00:18 | Eventually, working your way back to
the main menu. That works for Deleted
| | 00:21 | Scenes as well. That's only one sub-
menu but it also contains the back button
| | 00:25 | to take me back to the main menu.
| | 00:26 | Depending on how complex your DVD
might be getting, maybe you have sub-menus
| | 00:31 | within sub-menus within sub-menus,
that's a lot of back buttons to be Clicking.
| | 00:35 | Now most but not all DVD remote
controls have a title or menu button on them to
| | 00:40 | take you back to the main menu of the
DVD. But some people aren't aware of that
| | 00:44 | button or what it does. So you should
provide your viewers with an easy way to
| | 00:47 | get back to the main menu very quickly.
| | 00:49 | Let's go back to the Scene Selection
menu. So we are three levels in right now
| | 00:56 | meaning I have to Click the back button
on this menu, and then the back button
| | 00:58 | on the next menu to get back to the
main menu. Now we have an option under the
| | 01:02 | Project menu called Add Title Menu
button. The button that this will add to
| | 01:08 | your menu is going to appear in the
same style as the other buttons on this
| | 01:12 | menu. Let me show you what I mean.
| | 01:14 | So you can see that iDVD adds the
Title Menu button in line with the other
| | 01:19 | three buttons that were on this page
and it actually has now created two rows
| | 01:23 | of buttons. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
are in the top row and Chapter 3 and the
| | 01:27 | Title Menu are now in the bottom row.
And instead of Title Menu I kind of like
| | 01:31 | Main Menu. It's a little more
descriptive to me so I'll just change it to Main.
| | 01:35 | Now with that button selected I'm
going to Click the Info button to open the
| | 01:38 | Button Info window and you can see
here we have several different options for
| | 01:42 | customizing the look of this button. Now we'll talk
more about button customizations a little bit later.
| | 01:47 | But for now I should at least add a
photo here, so I'm going to open my
| | 01:50 | exercise files, go into Bryce Canyon
Pics, and I'll just grab IMG_0005 and drag
| | 01:57 | that into the Custom thumbnail area of
the Button Info window. And now I have a
| | 02:03 | nice picture inside my Main Menu
button. So to test this I just Click the
| | 02:08 | button like a normal button and it
takes me back to the main menu right away.
| | 02:11 | So that's just something to keep in mind.
If you have a menu that's deep inside
| | 02:14 | several other sub-menus on your DVD,
consider adding a Title Menu button.
| | 02:18 | We probably wouldn't need one for the
Deleted Scenes menu because the back button
| | 02:22 | here already takes you
right back to the main menu.
| | 02:24 | But again that's kind of a small
button and not everybody will know to Click
| | 02:27 | that. So if we wanted to, we could
choose Project > Add Title Menu Button again
| | 02:32 | and you can see here again that gets
added in the style of the other buttons on
| | 02:35 | this page. And for consistency's sake,
I'll make this Main Menu again. And
| | 02:41 | maybe I'll just drag that down a
little bit to distinguish it from the other
| | 02:45 | buttons on the page that
actually take you to movies.
| | 02:47 | Again, Double-Clicking it will take me
back to the main menu. So again that's
| | 02:52 | just a quick and easy way to provide a
link back to the main menu of your DVD.
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| Editing the appearance of buttons| 00:00 | Before we add more content to our DVD
project, let's pause for a moment and
| | 00:04 | talk about some more ways we can
customize the look of our theme and project.
| | 00:08 | Specifically, I want to take a look at
how we can customize the buttons in our
| | 00:11 | menus. Basically any items on your
menu that have been Clicked takes you to
| | 00:15 | somewhere else on the DVD whether it's
to another menu, or to a video or slide
| | 00:19 | show, let's consider a button and each
theme has a default look for its buttons
| | 00:23 | and often times the button appearance is going to differ
depending on which menu within that theme you are using.
| | 00:28 | For example, on this main menu of the
Modern theme that I'm using, we have two
| | 00:32 | Text buttons. Let me go ahead and play
this so you can see how they work.
| | 00:36 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:41 | So you can see they highlight when I roll
over them and that's pretty much it for
| | 00:45 | these buttons. That's their behavior.
| | 00:47 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:49 | Same thing for the menus on the Deleted
| | 00:51 | Scenes menu, if I Click
that and go to Deleted Scenes.
| | 00:55 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:56 | Again we have these Text menus that
are highlighting in orange. Let's go back
| | 01:00 | to the main menu and let's
go to our Scene Selection menu.
| | 01:10 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:19 | Here on the Scene Selection menu, we have different
types of buttons. You can see here that there
| | 01:23 | are actually movies playing inside
these buttons and they also highlight in
| | 01:27 | orange with an outline appearing around
the thumbnail of the video. These types
| | 01:31 | of buttons are called Shape buttons.
Let's go ahead and stop the playback.
| | 01:39 | So these are all nice looking buttons
within this theme but you are not stuck
| | 01:42 | with whichever type of button happens to
appear in whichever menu you are using.
| | 01:46 | Let's go back to the main menu.
I'll now use the Southern Utah button as
| | 01:53 | an example to show you how to
customize buttons. With up on selected I can go
| | 01:57 | to the Buttons pane and here you can
see that we have all sorts of different
| | 02:02 | appearances we can select from, from
our Buttons. This menu at the top is
| | 02:06 | divided into Text, Bullets, Shapes and you see a divider
line and then we have Frames, Artistic, Rectangle and Rounded.
| | 02:14 | For the most part, the three
categories at the top of the menu deal with Text
| | 02:17 | buttons, these are best applied for
changing the look of buttons that are
| | 02:20 | primarily text and the items at the
bottom are for when you want to add videos
| | 02:24 | or photos to the buttons like we saw on
the Scene Selection page. So with text
| | 02:29 | selected, the items here affect how the
text is really highlighted and you can
| | 02:32 | see the different highlights appear
as I select them. So if I select this
| | 02:35 | highlight, you can see a little orange
underline has appeared under Southern Utah.
| | 02:42 | This highlight is more of a
straight line; this highlight is more of a
| | 02:46 | hand-drawn line. It's kind of
hard to see when you have the button
| | 02:48 | self-selected and you can't see it when
you deselect. So I'm going to play this
| | 02:51 | so you can actually see how this looks.
| | 02:53 | (Music plays.)
| | 02:58 | So there is that highlight.
| | 03:01 | (Music plays.)
| | 03:03 | And if I had the other one set that way as well
then I would see the underline appear under
| | 03:07 | the Deleted Scenes menu when I rolled
up over here, but currently I'm only
| | 03:09 | working with the Southern
Utah button. Let's Click Stop.
| | 03:13 | Let's select that button again, and
we'll switch over to Bullets and I can see
| | 03:19 | the different bullets that are
available here to add as Bullet highlights. Now
| | 03:23 | you may have a larger or smaller
collection of Bullets in your copy of iDVD, if
| | 03:26 | you had older versions of iDVD
installed previously. But if you just have a
| | 03:30 | fresh copy of iDVD you might not have
as many bullets as you see here or you
| | 03:33 | might have more. But again just
selecting them shows me different highlights.
| | 03:37 | We have several different star bullets
that lack as highlights, triangle, or
| | 03:46 | stars, got hearts, there are cubes,
there are squares something that looks like
| | 03:52 | molding and of course we don't want
any highlights other than the text itself
| | 03:57 | highlighting and Click the no symbol at the top.
| | 03:59 | Each one of these different sections
has a no symbol available so you can
| | 04:02 | remove any sort of highlight or
change to the button that you might have
| | 04:04 | applied and we also have Shapes and
these added shape highlights around our
| | 04:09 | button. We have some really large
highlights. Let me show what that one looks like.
| | 04:15 | (Music plays.)
| | 04:19 | It looks something like that. Probably
don't want that for this particular menu.
| | 04:26 | But you know you can run through here
with the button selected and to see what
| | 04:29 | these different shapes look like and
so on and so on. I kind of like that
| | 04:39 | hand-drawn underline look from the Text
menu, so I'll go ahead back to Text and
| | 04:43 | select that highlight. I'm going to
add that to both buttons on my main menu.
| | 04:46 | So I'm going to select Deleted Scene and also add
that highlight. So now we can see what that looks like.
| | 04:51 | (Music plays.)
| | 04:56 | So we see that underline appear each
time I roll over button. Now if you don't
| | 05:03 | like the color of the highlight used
in the button, you can change that as
| | 05:06 | well. Just open up the Menu Info
window and make sure that you have nothing
| | 05:10 | selected when you Click the Info button,
otherwise we have a button selected,
| | 05:13 | you will see the Button Info window and
that's not where we want to be. So I'm
| | 05:16 | going to make sure I have nothing
selected and here on the Menu Info window we
| | 05:19 | have this Highlight color well. And I
can Click that to open the Color Picker
| | 05:24 | to pick another highlight color, and
I often like to pick colors that are
| | 05:27 | already present in the menu. So I'm
going to use the magnifying glass to sample
| | 05:31 | another color for my screen and I'll
just pick the color of maybe one of these
| | 05:35 | lighter rocks in here. Maybe right
about there. I'll close the color picker.
| | 05:43 | I'll close the Menu Info window and
let's see what that looks like now.
| | 05:47 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:52 | So there we go, nice lighter color
instead of that bright orange.
| | 05:55 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:58 | So these are the types of changes you can make
to Text buttons. Let's go back to the Scene
| | 06:02 | Selection menu and look at how we can
customize the Shape buttons. So again we
| | 06:08 | have four Shape buttons here, so I
just need to have one of them selected to
| | 06:11 | change its look and let's go to Frames
and here we have a large number of frame
| | 06:17 | shapes to put around the button. So
you can just select one and see whether
| | 06:21 | it's appropriate or whether you like
it. Now just because these are here
| | 06:28 | doesn't mean you have to use them.
It's up to you to determine what's
| | 06:30 | appropriate for your project. Maybe little birds
are not appropriate for your DVD Shape buttons.
| | 06:35 | But you can see that there is a wide
selection to choose from here. We also
| | 06:40 | have Artistic, which sometimes gets
even more elaborate, lot of hand-drawn
| | 06:49 | looking frames here. Got a little
filmstrip look. We have a heart shape look
| | 06:55 | and we also have Rectangle, which as
you might imagine are mostly rectangle
| | 06:59 | shapes, and we also have
Rounded. These are kind of cool.
| | 07:14 | If you end up picking one of these you
probably want to apply the same shape to
| | 07:16 | all of your buttons just for
consistency sake. So we can really go wild here
| | 07:21 | and drastically change the original
look of the button. Now word of caution, if
| | 07:25 | you change your mind and decide not to
change the shape of the button and you
| | 07:29 | Click the no symbol that will actually
take away the shape formatting and turn
| | 07:34 | your button back into a Text button.
| | 07:36 | So I could try to hunt around in here
and try to find the one rectangle that
| | 07:39 | kind of looks like all the other
buttons here and I don't actually think I'm
| | 07:43 | going to find it because I think the
button shapes here are sort of custom for
| | 07:46 | this particular theme. But you can
always go back to the original look of a
| | 07:50 | button by selecting the button and
then choosing Advanced > Reset Object to
| | 07:54 | Theme Settings and that will
take it back to its original look.
| | 07:57 | So you are free to experiment as much
as you want and if you change your mind,
| | 08:00 | you can always go back to the
original look. Also this divider line that I
| | 08:04 | mentioned in the Buttons menu is just
sort of a guideline. You are not really
| | 08:08 | limited to applying only the items
under the divider line to Shape buttons. If
| | 08:11 | you want to convert a Shape button
into a Text button, just select the button
| | 08:14 | and then choose a look
from Text, Bullets or Shapes.
| | 08:19 | But I don't really want to do that, so
let's set that back. Similarly I can go
| | 08:24 | back to the main menu and turn any of
these Text buttons into a Shape button
| | 08:29 | just by selecting something from one
of the four categories underneath the
| | 08:33 | divider line. But again I don't really
want to do that here either. I kind of
| | 08:37 | like the Text buttons on the main menu here. So
again Advanced > Reset Object to Theme Settings.
| | 08:42 | Although I guess I did have an
underline highlight selected, so again we'll go
| | 08:46 | back to Text and I'll add that
highlight selection back. So that's yet another
| | 08:51 | way to customize look of a standard
iDVD theme, in this case by changing the
| | 08:55 | look of the buttons to really
make the DVD theme your own.
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| Creating slideshows| 00:00 | With iDVD, not only can you burn your
videos to a DVD but you can also include
| | 00:04 | photos on the disc to accompany your
movies. So for example, if you are sending
| | 00:08 | your friends a disc of your vacation
videos, you can also include the still
| | 00:12 | photos you took as a slideshow on that
same disc or you can even just send a
| | 00:15 | DVD with just photos on it
if you don't have any videos.
| | 00:19 | In any case, an iDVD slideshow is a
great way for people to be able to check
| | 00:22 | out your photos on their TVs instead of
their computers. So let's see how we do
| | 00:26 | this. I'm going to use the Bryce
Canyon photos in my exercise files folder.
| | 00:32 | Bryce Canyon Pics and I could just drag
them into iDVD from here, but for this
| | 00:37 | example, I'm going to import them
into iPhoto first to make this exercise
| | 00:40 | little more realistic. Because if you
are using iLife, you will probably keep
| | 00:43 | all of your photos in iPhoto anyway.
So with all of my photos selected, I'm
| | 00:49 | going to drag those to my iPhoto icon in
my dock to import them and there they are.
| | 00:58 | Once your photos are in iPhoto, there
are a couple of ways you can get them
| | 01:00 | into an iPhoto slideshow. The first way
is to create an album of the photos you
| | 01:05 | want to send. So maybe I'll create a
new album. I'll call it Bryce Canyon and
| | 01:12 | I'll go back to my Last Import to find
those these photos and just select them
| | 01:15 | all and drag them into my Bryce Canyon
album and with that album selected, I'll
| | 01:23 | choose Share > Send to iDVD.
| | 01:28 | This creates a slideshow called Bryce
Canyon, which was the name of my album.
| | 01:32 | If I Double-Click that, I'll be taken
to the slideshow here on iDVD. So that's
| | 01:37 | one quick way to create an iDVD
slideshow. You just select your photos in
| | 01:40 | iPhoto and you don't even have to put
them in an album like I did. Just select
| | 01:44 | the photos you want in iPhoto and
then choose, Share Send to iDVD.
| | 01:47 | I am going to go back to the main menu
and just delete that slideshow so I can
| | 01:51 | show you another way to do it. So
another way to create a slideshow is to start
| | 01:54 | right here on iDVD, Click the Add
button and choose Add Slideshow. You can see
| | 02:00 | that creates a My Slideshow button and I'll just
select that and change its name to Bryce Canyon.
| | 02:08 | And again I can Double-Click that
slideshow to go into the slideshow settings
| | 02:11 | and from here in the Media Browser, I
can get to all my iPhoto pictures by
| | 02:16 | going to Photos and then here I can
find my iPhoto library and I'll just locate
| | 02:20 | that album I just created, called
Bryce Canyon and here are all of my photos
| | 02:24 | and I can just drag in the photos that
I want, or if I want them all from this
| | 02:30 | album, I can just select them all
and just drag them in. So now I have 10
| | 02:37 | photos in my slideshow. And my photos
in this iDVD slideshow are arranged in
| | 02:42 | this left to right, top to bottom view
and this is the order in which they will
| | 02:45 | be played in the slideshow on the DVD.
That can also be the slideshow in a top
| | 02:49 | to bottom fashion. But I like the
other layout because it lets me see more of
| | 02:53 | the photos at once. Now if I want to
rearrange the order of the photos, I just
| | 02:57 | need to select them and drag them
around and you can see the other pictures
| | 03:00 | just kind of get out of the
way and readjust themselves.
| | 03:03 | Or if there are photos that I don't
like or want in the slideshow, I just
| | 03:07 | select them and hit the Delete key on
my keyboard and they are gone. And we
| | 03:10 | also have several different slideshow
options at the bottom of the window to
| | 03:14 | play around with. First one we have is
Slide Duration. When your slideshow is
| | 03:18 | played on the DVD, each photo will have
a set amount of time on screen based on
| | 03:21 | the selection that you make in this
Duration menu. We can choose from 1 second,
| | 03:25 | 3 seconds, 5, 10 and we can also choose
Manual if you want to give your viewers
| | 03:30 | the ability to manually
advance the slideshow themselves.
| | 03:33 | But if you want to keep things moving
along and I suggest you do, choose 5
| | 03:37 | seconds or 3 seconds as your Slide
Duration setting. That way the pictures will
| | 03:41 | continue to advance forward even if
the viewers aren't using their remote
| | 03:44 | control and when you have automatic
duration selected, your viewers will still
| | 03:48 | be able to pause or jump ahead or
back using the buttons on their remote
| | 03:51 | control. It's just that if you choose
the Manual setting, the pictures will not
| | 03:55 | move at all without
interaction from your viewers.
| | 03:57 | Next we have a menu for Transitions
and this gives you some choices for the
| | 04:01 | animations that appear between your
slides. So instead of each slide just
| | 04:05 | appearing in place of the previous one,
you can have animations like a Cube
| | 04:08 | effect or a Page Flip or any of the
other options listed here. With some of
| | 04:13 | these transitions selected you will see
this four-directional selector appears,
| | 04:16 | so you can customize the
direction of the animation.
| | 04:18 | For example, the Cube effect is for
making photos look like they are appearing
| | 04:22 | on a rotating cube. So you can adjust
the direction of the cubes rotation using
| | 04:26 | the direction settings. Not all
Transitions are going to have a direction like
| | 04:31 | Dissolve for instance. Just sort of a
cross dissolve between photos and there
| | 04:35 | is no direction for that so you can see that that
option is grayed out. I'll keep Cube selected for now.
| | 04:40 | We also have the option of adding
music to our slideshow. So if you have some
| | 04:43 | music that you want to accompany your
slideshow with, you can just drag it to
| | 04:46 | the Speaker icon. By going to the
Audio area of the Media Browser, you can
| | 04:50 | browse through your iTunes library as
well as any GarageBand songs that you
| | 04:55 | might have composed, and if you recall
back in the movie on adding music to a
| | 04:58 | menu, I showed you how you can drag in
any folder into this audio area to have
| | 05:02 | access to the audio files in that
folder directly from here in iDVD.
| | 05:05 | So I still have this Jingles folder
available. So I can browse through these by
| | 05:10 | selecting them and Clicking the Play button.
| | 05:12 | (Music Playing)
| | 05:34 | Okay, and I kind of like that Pastel
Slide Long. So I'll go with that one.
| | 05:37 | So if I want to use this, I just simply
drag it to the Speaker icon. I can also
| | 05:42 | just drag it right into
the slideshow area itself.
| | 05:46 | Notice when I did that that the Slide
Duration has changed to Fit to Audio. So
| | 05:50 | what iDVD is going to do is take the
length of that song that I dragged in
| | 05:54 | which in this case is 31 seconds and
then evenly distribute the length of each
| | 05:58 | slide to fit within those 31 seconds.
It can still change the duration if it
| | 06:03 | wants to, so the song will either
run out or not finish depending on the
| | 06:07 | length of the song and the duration
of your slides. But if you are going to
| | 06:10 | have music behind your slide you
might as well have music behind them all.
| | 06:13 | The key is finding the right length of
music to fit the number of slides you
| | 06:16 | have so the images don't linger too
long on screen or flash by too quickly.
| | 06:21 | Notice also that Manual is no longer
available. If you want to give your
| | 06:25 | viewers Manual control over the
slideshow, you can't have music in the
| | 06:28 | background of the slideshow. To remove
music that you have added, just drag it
| | 06:31 | out of that music well and
then you can choose Manual again.
| | 06:35 | But I do want music here, so I'm just
going to drag that back in. We also have
| | 06:37 | a Slideshow Volume slider you can use,
if you think the music is too loud or
| | 06:42 | too quite during the slideshow, and
you can just preview that, when you Click
| | 06:45 | the Play button which we'll do a
little bit later. And then we have several
| | 06:48 | other settings we can play around
with by Clicking the Settings button.
| | 06:51 | We can choose to loop the slideshow so
that once the slideshow reaches its end
| | 06:55 | it will go back and play the whole
thing over again from the beginning over and
| | 06:59 | over until someone stops it. We can
Display navigation arrows. I can see that
| | 07:03 | this put arrows in the lower left and
right-hand corners of most of the slides.
| | 07:07 | These are not Clickable arrows on the
DVD. But just going to be there as visual
| | 07:11 | accuse telling the viewer that there are
more photos before or after the current slide.
| | 07:15 | So notice on the first slide we only
have an arrow in the lower right-hand
| | 07:18 | corner letting the viewer know that
more slides are coming and then for each
| | 07:23 | subsequent slide we have arrows to the
left and right telling the viewer that
| | 07:26 | there are pictures before this photo
that you are looking at and there are more
| | 07:29 | pictures coming and then at the very
end we only have an arrow pointing to the
| | 07:32 | left which basically, visually
tells the viewer this is the last slide.
| | 07:36 | Personally I kind of find those arrows
distracting, so I usually leave those off.
| | 07:39 | We also have the ability to Add
image files to the DVD-ROM portion of the
| | 07:43 | DVD and I'm going to talk about
this in its own movie very shortly, but
| | 07:47 | basically when you burn your DVD, you
can also include a DVD-ROM portion which
| | 07:52 | will be accessible from a computer, but
not from a regular set-top DVD player.
| | 07:56 | But putting the DVD into a computer
will give viewers access to the full
| | 07:59 | resolution files from the slideshow,
which is nice if you want to include
| | 08:02 | printable versions of the photos on the disc.
I'm going to leave that unchecked for now.
| | 08:06 | We can also show titles and comments.
I'll go ahead and check that and that
| | 08:10 | allows you to type some text into the
fields that are now available. This can
| | 08:14 | be useful to give your viewers the
names of the slides they are looking at, or
| | 08:18 | to add a short anecdote or a point of
interest about the photos. I'll leave
| | 08:21 | that checked. And the final option is
Duck audio while playing movies. So yes
| | 08:26 | not only can you put still images into
your slideshows but you can also include
| | 08:30 | movies and if the movies include
audio, the music that you are playing to
| | 08:34 | accompany the slideshow will then lower
in volume or duck so that the audio and
| | 08:38 | the movie is more prominent, which
can be useful if you for example have a
| | 08:41 | video of a tour guide telling visitors
about a particular sight. You would most
| | 08:45 | likely want people to be able to hear
that tour guide or any background music
| | 08:48 | you have accompanying your slideshow.
| | 08:50 | So I'll leave these two options checked
and we'll Click OK to close the rest of
| | 08:53 | the settings and just so you can see
how this works I'll name one of these
| | 08:57 | photos, call this Chipmunk and then
we'll add some comments. We named him
| | 09:07 | Chippy. He was delicious. You got the
idea. So we'll see how those appear in
| | 09:15 | the slideshow and let's also grab a
movie so we can add that to the slideshow
| | 09:20 | and see how that works. I'll just
hide iPhoto for the moment here and in my
| | 09:24 | exercise files folder I'll go into
Southern Utah and I'm going to grab the
| | 09:31 | Clouds_TL video. It's just a short video.
I'm just going to drag that into my slideshow.
| | 09:38 | And you can see there is movie icon in
its thumbnail letting you know this is a
| | 09:41 | movie clip. I'm just going to drag that
next to the Chipmunk photo and there is
| | 09:45 | very little audio in this movie clip
but you will see that when we get to that
| | 09:48 | point in the slideshow that the
background music will then duck below so you
| | 09:52 | can hear the audio from this clip.
| | 09:54 | And the only audio in this clip is
just sort of this high-speed sound.
| | 09:57 | But you will get the idea.
So let's check out the slideshow.
| | 10:01 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:04 | So you can see the title's appearing.
| | 10:06 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:09 | There is my comment and the title.
| | 10:11 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:13 | And there the volume went down while this video plays.
| | 10:15 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:19 | And then the volume of the background music
| | 10:20 | comes right back up when we get right
back into the slideshow.
| | 10:23 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:28 | And this is the cube effect
transition we are seeing.
| | 10:30 | (Music playing.)
| | 10:34 | And there it is. We are taken right back
| | 10:36 | to the main menu because we chose not to loop
the slideshow. Let me go ahead and stop this.
| | 10:42 | So it's really easy to create a slideshow.
You can do a lot of cool things with them.
| | 10:45 | One last thing I want to point out is
under iDVD > Preferences, Slideshow we have
| | 10:51 | couple of different options here. We
have Always add original photos to DVD-ROM
| | 10:56 | contents. So if you always want to
include those photos, you can check that
| | 10:59 | option. We have Always scale slides
to TV Safe Area. You might have noticed
| | 11:03 | that the slideshow didn't fill out the
entirety of the Preview window. Because
| | 11:07 | if you want to make sure that anybody
watching on any TV will see all of the
| | 11:10 | photos in their entirety, you would
leave this option checked. We talked about
| | 11:13 | the TV Safe Area a couple of times
before now. So just to make sure that none
| | 11:17 | of the photos are cut off in any way,
iDVD will slightly reduce the size of the
| | 11:22 | slideshow photos so that you can see them all.
| | 11:24 | We also have Fade volume out at end
of slideshow. So if the music that you
| | 11:28 | choose is little bit longer than the
slideshow itself and maybe you didn't have
| | 11:32 | Fit to Audio selected as your duration
length, instead of having the music come
| | 11:36 | to sort of a cut-off abrupt end, you
can check Fade volume out at end of
| | 11:39 | slideshow to have the
audio just gradually fade out.
| | 11:42 | And then we have the option to always
Show titles and comments. I kind of like
| | 11:45 | these default settings just the way
they are, but just be aware that these
| | 11:48 | option are here if you want to adjust
the default settings of your slideshows.
| | 11:51 | You can always customize each slideshow
settings individually just like we did.
| | 11:56 | The Preferences are really here just
for setting the starting point of your
| | 11:58 | slideshows. And I'm just going to
make a slight adjustment here because my
| | 12:03 | slideshow menu item looks a little bit
lower than the other two because in the
| | 12:06 | previous movie, I showed you how to
customize buttons, and I'm just going to go
| | 12:10 | ahead and customize this button with the hand-
drawn underline look that we applied to the other ones.
| | 12:15 | Now it looks little bit better and
that's how we add a slideshow to our DVD and
| | 12:19 | you can add as many slideshows to your
DVD as you like. You can even have a DVD
| | 12:22 | that's just photos if you had no
movies to include. There is another type of
| | 12:26 | slideshow you can add to your DVD using
iPhoto and we'll take a look at that next.
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| Adding an iPhoto slideshow| 00:00 | In the previous movie, we looked at
how to create an iDVD slideshow by first
| | 00:04 | importing our photos into iPhoto and
then choosing the Share > Send to iDVD
| | 00:08 | command. We also saw that you can
create a slideshow directly in iDVD by using
| | 00:14 | the Add Slideshow button and then
dragging in photos from the Media Browser.
| | 00:18 | Now there is another kind of slideshow
you can bring in and that's an iPhoto
| | 00:23 | slideshow. There is a difference
between creating a slideshow in iDVD with
| | 00:27 | photos from your iPhoto library and
actually generating a slideshow in iPhoto
| | 00:31 | and then bringing it into
iDVD as a completed project.
| | 00:34 | Let's switch over to iPhoto. New to
iPhoto'09 are a bunch of slideshow themes
| | 00:39 | and you can create an instant
slideshow simply by selecting some photos, in
| | 00:43 | this case, I'll just select my
Bryce Canyon album and then Clicking the
| | 00:46 | Slideshow button in the toolbar. You
can see we get to select from all these
| | 00:52 | different themes. We have the Classic
theme, which is sort of the old iPhoto
| | 00:55 | slideshow capabilities. We also have
things like Scrapbook, Shatter, Sliding
| | 01:00 | Panels, Snapshots. I'll just
play one or two of these for you.
| | 01:04 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:15 | I can actually change up theme on the
fly. Maybe I'll choose Sliding Panels.
| | 01:22 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:29 | You get the idea there, Snapshots.
| | 01:32 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:48 | So that's a great way to quickly generate an
| | 01:50 | impressive looking slideshow on the fly,
for when somebody drops in on you
| | 01:54 | unexpectedly and you want to show them
some pictures. But you can also create a
| | 01:57 | slideshow project in iPhoto, which is a saved slideshow,
in which you can specify settings and themes and music.
| | 02:04 | To do so, select the photos that you
want to add to the slideshow project.
| | 02:07 | Click the Add button in the lower left-
hand corner of the iPhoto window. Select
| | 02:11 | Slideshow and then give the slideshow a
name. I'll just leave the default Bryce
| | 02:15 | Canyon Slideshow name selected, and
currently it says, "Use selected items in
| | 02:19 | new slideshow" and I really only
have one photo selected right now.
| | 02:22 | So I'm just going to uncheck that. Click Create.
| | 02:28 | So my slideshow is currently empty. So
I'm just going to go back to my Album,
| | 02:31 | select all those photos and just drag
that into my slideshow. There we go.
| | 02:37 | So now we're in a Slideshow project and
down near the bottom you can select from
| | 02:41 | the different themes that we just saw.
We have Classic, Ken Burns, Scrapbook,
| | 02:44 | Shatter, Sliding Panels and Snapshots.
We can choose from different music.
| | 02:50 | We can access the Theme Music that's built into iPhoto
or we could even go into our GarageBand or iTunes library.
| | 02:58 | Now depending on which theme you
selected, you'll see different settings
| | 03:01 | available here. For example, with the
Classic slideshow selected, like I have
| | 03:04 | right now, I can choose different
transitions. In fact, I could actually choose
| | 03:08 | different transitions for each
slide if I wanted to do that.
| | 03:13 | So there are a lot of different things
we can do for our slideshows and I'm not
| | 03:16 | going to get into too much detail here
because this is not an iPhoto tutorial.
| | 03:19 | If you do want to learn more about
iPhoto slideshows and iPhoto, in general, be
| | 03:23 | sure to check out iPhoto '09
Essential Training on the Lynda.com Online
| | 03:26 | Training Library. But the point is you
can do some things with slideshows in
| | 03:31 | iPhoto that you can't do in iDVD, and
that includes taking advantage of the
| | 03:35 | cool new slideshow themes that are
available in iPhoto '09 that we just saw.
| | 03:39 | So if you like the effects found in
iPhoto and would like to include them on
| | 03:42 | your DVD, create a slideshow project
here on iPhoto, and then adjust your settings.
| | 03:46 | I'll come in here and I'll choose
the Scrapbook theme. Choose that
| | 03:52 | and I'm just going to leave all the
other settings at their default.
| | 03:55 | Then with your slideshow selected,
choose Share > Send to iDVD.
| | 04:01 | iPhoto is telling me that I have
currently selected a single photo and you can
| | 04:03 | it's just one photo selected here. Do
I want to send one photo to iDVD or the
| | 04:07 | whole slideshow? In my case I do want to send the
entire slideshow. So I'll choose Send whole slideshow.
| | 04:14 | This exporting process is going to
take a little longer than when we simply
| | 04:17 | send photos from iPhoto into iDVD like
we did in the previous movie, because in
| | 04:22 | this case, iPhoto is actually
generating the entire slideshow complete with all
| | 04:25 | the related effects and music already
attached. So this will naturally take a
| | 04:29 | little bit longer than just
sending the photos themselves to iDVD.
| | 04:33 | So now we're back in iDVD and we have a
new Slideshow button added to our main
| | 04:37 | menu, Bryce Canyon Slideshow. I can
adjust the appearance of the buttons, like
| | 04:41 | I did with the previous ones, so
with that selected I could come over to
| | 04:44 | Buttons and add that underline highlight so it
goes in line with the rest of the buttons on the page.
| | 04:49 | But unlike the Bryce Canyon Slideshow
we created previously, where I could
| | 04:52 | Double-Click that to go into the
Slideshow settings and adjust my transitions
| | 04:56 | and music and things like that,
that's something I can't do with the
| | 05:00 | iPhoto-generated Bryce Canyon Slideshow.
| | 05:03 | When I Double-Click it, I'm taken
right into the slideshow itself.
| | 05:07 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:23 | That's pretty cool! We have a slideshow
with all the features available in an iPhoto
| | 05:27 | slideshow, which are not directly
available in an iDVD slideshow, but we've
| | 05:31 | been able to place that right into our
iDVD project. But to stress again, you
| | 05:34 | have to make sure that all the slideshow settings are
the way you want them in iPhoto before you send it to iDVD.
| | 05:40 | If you end up wanting to make changes
to the slideshow, you have to delete that
| | 05:44 | slideshow from your DVD project. Return
to iPhoto, make your changes whether it
| | 05:51 | be in Themes, Music or Settings and then choose Share >
Send to iDVD again. We go back to iDVD, and undo that.
| | 06:01 | Also, you're not limited to having the
iPhoto slideshow live here on your main menu.
| | 06:04 | If you'd like to move it to a sub-menu,
you can simply select it, choose
| | 06:08 | Edit > Cut and maybe just as an
example here I'm going to move this to this
| | 06:14 | sub-menu here, the Southern Utah Trip,
and I'll choose Edit > Paste. There it is.
| | 06:21 | Let's move it a little bit lower. So again,
when I Double-Click on that, it still works.
| | 06:26 | (Music plays.)
| | 06:29 | You can also use the DVD Map
function to move the slideshow but I prefer
| | 06:33 | cutting and pasting. I'll be showing
you this DVD Map feature in the next
| | 06:36 | chapter though. So that's how we add an
iPhoto-generated slideshow to our iDVD project.
| | 06:42 | As you can see, you have plenty of options
when it comes to adding still photos to your DVDs.
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| Adding DVD-ROM content| 00:00 | I've previously mentioned that, in
addition to the videos and photos you can
| | 00:03 | include on your DVD to be accessible
from the main menu, you can also include
| | 00:07 | files that will be accessible on the DVD
-ROM portion of the DVD. And again, the
| | 00:11 | DVD-ROM portion is the content that
will show up when someone puts your DVD
| | 00:15 | into a computer, rather than into a set
-top DVD player. Once we put the disc
| | 00:20 | into the computer, it will show up as
a data disc and then they can grab or
| | 00:23 | copy any of the files that you
happen to have put there for them.
| | 00:26 | So, for example, I previously
mentioned that when you create a slideshow, you
| | 00:31 | can open Settings and choose to add
your image files to the DVD-ROM. So if you
| | 00:36 | wanted to include the full original
resolution versions of the images, you
| | 00:39 | would check that option, Click OK, and
then the people with a copy of the disc
| | 00:44 | would then be able to grab those images
off the DVD-ROM and print out their own
| | 00:48 | copies or do whatever they
like with the files you provide.
| | 00:51 | But you can also include any other kind
of file you want. You can include movie
| | 00:54 | files, word processing documents, web
pages. Basically anything you can save on
| | 00:58 | a computer you can put on the disc as
long as you have a room. So to add DVD
| | 01:03 | content, go to Advanced > Edit DVD-ROM
Contents, and you can see in this window
| | 01:10 | that opens, I already have a folder
called Slideshows and it contains the
| | 01:14 | images that I have used in
my Bryce Canyon Slideshow.
| | 01:17 | We can add other content to our DVD-
ROM simply by Clicking the New Folder
| | 01:20 | button, i.e., if you want to keep
things organized, you don't have to create a
| | 01:24 | new folder if you don't want to. But
I'm going to create one here called
| | 01:28 | Movies. Maybe I want to include
some QuickTime movies on the disc.
| | 01:33 | Then with that Movies folder selected,
I can choose Add Files. I'm going to go
| | 01:38 | out to my Desktop, into exercise files,
and into Southern Utah. I've got a
| | 01:45 | bunch of movies here, I'm just going
to hold down Shift and select the first
| | 01:48 | two movies just to show you this is an
example and Click Open. Now when I look
| | 01:54 | in that Movies folder, there are the two
movies that I've now been added to my DVD-ROM.
| | 01:58 | But I won't be able to see the results
of this until I actually burn my DVD.
| | 02:02 | But remember, you can also keep an eye
on how much space you're taking up on
| | 02:05 | your DVD by going to Project >
Project Info. We go and close the DVD-ROM
| | 02:10 | Contents window there. You can see
here that my DVD-ROM content is now 177
| | 02:17 | megabytes. By looking at the colored
bar I can see how much space the other
| | 02:20 | items are currently taking up on my DVD.
| | 02:22 | For example, menus are taking up 109
megabytes, you can see the blue bar right
| | 02:26 | there. The actual Movies themselves are
taking up 262 megabytes, again, you can
| | 02:31 | see that sort of turquoise bar there.
I just have a tiny, sliver of purple
| | 02:36 | indicating that slideshows are only
taking up a small portion, in this case, 21
| | 02:39 | megabytes up my DVD-ROM.
| | 02:42 | So you can come in here and just keep
an eye on how much space all the content
| | 02:45 | of your DVD is taking up, whether it's
the DVD-ROM portion, the slideshows, the
| | 02:49 | menus or all of them altogether. In this
case, I'm taking up a total of 569 megabytes.
| | 02:55 | So that's how we add additional
content to the DVD-ROM portion of our DVD
| | 02:59 | projects. It's not something you're
required to do by any means, but it's a nice
| | 03:03 | ability to have if you want to include
some extra files along with your DVDs.
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| Bypassing themes and menus| 00:00 | By now, if you've been watching this
tutorial from the beginning, you should
| | 00:03 | have a pretty good idea of how to
use iDVD in terms of selecting a theme,
| | 00:07 | adding content like videos and photos
and customizing the overall look of your
| | 00:11 | themes by changing buttons,
adding additional menus and so on.
| | 00:14 | But there may be times when you'll
prefer to Bypass the use themes altogether
| | 00:18 | and just create a DVD that once it
has popped into a DVD player will just
| | 00:22 | automatically start playing a movie. This
will be the quickest way to create a DVD.
| | 00:26 | You wouldn't have to worry about choosing or
customizing themes at all and it's very easy to do.
| | 00:30 | Let's open up the DVD Map, which we'll
be taking a closer look at in the next
| | 00:36 | chapter, but basically the DVD map is
a visual depiction of your entire DVD
| | 00:41 | hierarchy. It shows you which menus are
connected to which movies or sub-menus and so on.
| | 00:46 | For example, we have our main menu
right here Southern Utah Trip and you can
| | 00:50 | see connected to that is another menu
called Southern Utah Trip and connected
| | 00:54 | to that we have Play Movie and then we
have our Scene selection menu, Chapters
| | 00:58 | 1-3, and connected to that we have our
three different Chapters, 1, 2 and 3.
| | 01:04 | Going back off our main menu, you can
see that we are also connected to Deleted
| | 01:09 | Scenes and connected to Deleted Screens;
we have Deleted Scenes 1, 2 and 3. And
| | 01:16 | the third item we have off the main
menu is our Bryce Canyon slide show. So you
| | 01:19 | can see this just maps
out our entire DVD for us.
| | 01:23 | But that's not really what I want to
look at right now. What I want to show you
| | 01:26 | here is the very first item in the
upper left hand corner. This is called the
| | 01:30 | Project icon. It says Drag content here to
automatically play when the disk is inserted.
| | 01:35 | So to show you this, I'm going to
create a new project, so I don't have to
| | 01:37 | worry about messing up the one I
currently have open. So I'm going to choose
| | 01:40 | File > New. And to my Desktop, I'll just
use the default name here of My Great DVD.
| | 01:47 | Leave it at Widescreen.
| | 01:51 | So this is a new DVD project and you
can see a theme has already been chosen by
| | 01:55 | default, which is the previous theme I
was working with. But I don't want to
| | 01:58 | use a theme in this case. I just want
to put my Southern Utah movie onto the
| | 02:01 | DVD and then have the DVD automatically start
playing as soon as it's inserted into a DVD player.
| | 02:07 | So I'll open the DVD Map again, and
again you can see the main menu right here.
| | 02:12 | But I'm going to ignore that and
instead, I'm going to go into my exercise
| | 02:14 | files and I'm going to drag my
Southern Utah movie over the Project icon.
| | 02:23 | Anything you drag into the Project icon
will be the first thing that plays when
| | 02:27 | the DVD is inserted into a DVD player.
You could use this if you wanted to put
| | 02:31 | a message out to appear before the main
menu appeared, kind of like, those FBI
| | 02:34 | piracy warnings you see at the
beginning of commercial DVDs.
| | 02:38 | So whatever you put in the Project icon
will play and then when the end of that
| | 02:40 | movie is reached, the main menu will
display. But in this case, I want to
| | 02:45 | prevent the main menu from ever
showing up at all. So with the Project icon
| | 02:48 | selected I'm going to
choose Advanced > Loop movie.
| | 02:51 | Notice that puts a little Loop icon
in the lower right hand corner of the
| | 02:56 | Project icon. And that's really all
that is to it. This movie will now play
| | 03:00 | over and over and over again, as soon
as the disk is put into a DVD player and
| | 03:04 | it won't stop until somebody manually stops it.
| | 03:07 | Creating an endless loop could be
useful in situations like, if you have an
| | 03:10 | information kiosk where you want a video to
play without any supervision or interaction.
| | 03:15 | So that's how you create a DVD in which
you can completely bypass having to use
| | 03:19 | themes or menus or any other
decorative or interactive elements.
| | 03:22 | Just drag the movie into the Project icon, choose
Advanced > Loop movie, burn the disk and you're done.
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| Importing movies from iMovie '09| 00:00 | At the beginning of this chapter,
I promise to show you the workflow for
| | 00:03 | getting a movie from iMovie '09 into
iDVD '09. So let's take a look at how we
| | 00:07 | do that? Now we have seen in this
chapter that when you go to the Media Browser
| | 00:12 | and go to Movies, you can access
your iMovie projects from here.
| | 00:17 | But notice that some of my projects, in
fact most of my projects, when they are
| | 00:21 | selected give me this message saying
this iMovie project can't be used because
| | 00:25 | it hasn't been prepared for sharing yet.
To prepare it for sharing open it in
| | 00:28 | iMovie and choose Share > Media Browser.
So you can only bring in an iMovie
| | 00:32 | movie if it has been prepared for sharing.
| | 00:34 | So let's switch over to iMovie and
see what that means. Now this is not an
| | 00:40 | iMovie tutorial so I'm not going to
get into all the details of how to create
| | 00:43 | an iMovie project. You can check out
iMovie '09 Essential Training on the
| | 00:47 | Lynda.com online training library
for a thorough tutorial on iMovie.
| | 00:50 | But let's go ahead and create a new
project by choosing File > New Project.
| | 00:54 | Let me call this one Bryce Canyon Trip,
keep the Aspect Ratio at Widescreen, no
| | 01:02 | Theme and Click Create. Here I have a
new blank iMovie project and now I need
| | 01:08 | to import some footage so I can edit it together.
So I'm going to choose File > Import > Movies.
| | 01:16 | And on my Desktop I'll go into exercise
files, Southern Utah and I'm just going
| | 01:21 | to grab a coupe of different movies
here. I'm going to hold down the Command
| | 01:24 | key or Apple key on my keyboard and
just select a couple of these. I'll
| | 01:28 | Clouds Time Lapse, flowers, let's grab Stacks
and maybe one more, we'll do the Sunset Time Lapse.
| | 01:38 | I'm going to create a new event. And
events in iMovie are just like events in
| | 01:42 | iPhoto. You can have events for
birthdays or holidays or anything you like. So
| | 01:46 | I'm just going to create a new event to
keep this organized. And I'll just call
| | 01:49 | this Southern Utah. And I'm going to
copy the files instead of moving them
| | 01:54 | because I want to keep the original
files in my exercise files folder.
| | 02:00 | So iMovie will just take a minute to
import those files. And if I look over
| | 02:05 | here in my Event Library, right here is
the event footage that I just imported,
| | 02:09 | Southern Utah. And if you've never
worked with iMovie before, I'll just give
| | 02:12 | you the very basics of
how to edit a clip together.
| | 02:14 | Basically, in the lower portion of the
window here, we're looking at our event
| | 02:18 | browser. This is where we can browse
through the different clips that we just
| | 02:21 | imported. And if you want to use any of
these clips in your project, you simply
| | 02:24 | just Click-and-drag to select the portion of that
clip and then drag that portion into your project.
| | 02:32 | And I'll just continue doing that, I'll
just grab maybe two or three seconds of
| | 02:34 | each one these clips. You have to grab the
flowers next, and I'll just grab this nice long sunset.
| | 02:45 | And then we could things like add
Transitions, where I'll grab the Fade to
| | 02:58 | Black at the end then also put one at
the beginning so that we can fade into
| | 03:03 | our video. And then we've got this added some
nice Cross Dissolves between each of these clips.
| | 03:09 | Right, so let's take a look at this.
I'm just going to place my cursor at the
| | 03:19 | beginning of the project and press
the Spacebar on my keyboard to start playing.
| | 03:34 | And then we have this nice
sunset. Just jump ahead by Clicking and
| | 03:39 | hitting the Spacebar again.
And then it fades to black.
| | 03:44 | That's a very quickly assembled iMovie
project. We could do tons more of this,
| | 03:47 | but this will suffice for what I want
to show you. There are two ways to get
| | 03:50 | your movies into iDVD from iMovie. And
both options appear under the Share menu.
| | 03:56 | The most obvious method is to choose
Share > iDVD. And just like that iMovie
| | 04:03 | starts processing the project and
once its done iDVD will pop up in.
| | 04:08 | Now I already had a project open in iDVD,
it's asking if I want to save the current
| | 04:11 | project. I'm going to say yes,
so I don't lose any of my work.
| | 04:16 | And now I'm looking at a new project
called Bryce Canyon Trip, which was the
| | 04:20 | name of the project that I created in
iMovie. And you can see there is one
| | 04:26 | movie here called Bryce Canyon Trip
and if I Double-Click on it, it takes me
| | 04:30 | right into my movie and now I'm
watching my iMovie, created movie here in iDVD.
| | 04:41 | And I'm free to do anything else I
want to this project. For instance, if I
| | 04:44 | want to change the theme, I can come
in here and pick a different theme. So
| | 04:50 | that's pretty easy, just create an
edit your movie in iMovie and then choose
| | 04:53 | Share > iDVD to send the entire movie
over to iDVD. And again once your movie
| | 04:58 | is in iDVD you can continue customizing
the project by adding additional videos
| | 05:02 | and photos or creating sub-menus or
whatever else you want to add to the disk.
| | 05:06 | So that's one way to send your iMovie
project to iDVD. The other way, as I
| | 05:10 | mentioned previously, is to go to the
Media Browser and you can see that my
| | 05:14 | Bryce Canyon Trip project is now
listed here under Movies in iMovie.
| | 05:18 | But I still see this message telling me
that I can't use it because it hasn't been
| | 05:22 | prepared for sharing yet.
So let's go back to iMovie.
| | 05:24 | So I'm going to show you how to
prepare your movie for sharing via the Media
| | 05:29 | Browser. And basically the Media
Browser appears in some form in just about all
| | 05:33 | the other iLife applications. And it
allows you to share the content you create
| | 05:36 | in one iLife application
with other iLife applications.
| | 05:39 | For example, we've already seen how
you can access your GarageBand and iTunes
| | 05:43 | music and your iPhoto pictures directly
in iDVD through the Media Browser. Well
| | 05:48 | in order to access your iMovie
projects from the Media Browser, you need to
| | 05:51 | prepare the movie for sharing and to do so with
your projects open, choose Share > Media Browser.
| | 05:57 | So the advantage of exporting to the
Media Browser is that you can create a
| | 06:02 | version or versions of your movie that
can then be accessed and used in other
| | 06:06 | iLife applications that support movies.
So by exporting to the Media Browser,
| | 06:10 | I'll be able to access and use the movie in iDVD
as well as in, say, GarageBand and iWeb for example.
| | 06:17 | And we have choices in here for what
sizes we want the movie to be. We have
| | 06:20 | Tiny, Mobile, Medium, Large and HD.
Not all of these options will always be
| | 06:26 | available. If you imported a lower
resolution video file, maybe you shot it on
| | 06:30 | your digital still camera or possibly
your cell phone, you probably won't be
| | 06:32 | able to select the Large or HD
versions of the file because the original file
| | 06:37 | was smaller than the dimensions
mentioned over here on the right.
| | 06:40 | But if they are available to be
checked, you could check all five of these
| | 06:44 | different versions if you want to,
and that way you'll have five different
| | 06:46 | sizes of movies to use in the
different iLife applications. You could use the
| | 06:50 | Tiny or Mobile version for posting on
a webpage using iWeb or maybe Medium or
| | 06:55 | Large or HD versions for publishing to
YouTube or putting your movie into an iDVD project.
| | 07:00 | If you are going to be using your
video in an iDVD project, definitely export
| | 07:04 | the highest resolution version you can.
But bear in mind, if you do check all
| | 07:08 | five of these options, you will have to
wait while iMovie exports each version
| | 07:11 | one at a time, so it may take a while.
| | 07:14 | But I'll publish, say, the Medium and
the Large versions just so you can see
| | 07:18 | the results and I'll Click Publish.
So iMovie is now going to generate the
| | 07:23 | Large version of the movie and the
Medium version of the movie, so this could
| | 07:26 | take a little while but this is a
relatively short video, so it shouldn't take
| | 07:29 | too long and will actually
just speed this process up.
| | 07:33 | There it is. Now again, that actually
did take longer than what you just saw
| | 07:36 | there, we just sped the process up in
editing so you won't have to sit there
| | 07:39 | and watch your progress
bar move across the screen.
| | 07:42 | So let's switch back to iDVD, and now
when I look in my Media Browser, notice
| | 07:48 | with Bryce Canyon Trip selected, I
have both the Large and the Medium version
| | 07:52 | of the files now available. So for
instance here in this project, maybe I'll
| | 07:55 | just delete this version on the movie
I imported first. And I'll drag in the
| | 07:59 | Large version of the movie, and there it is.
| | 08:04 | And again, I have basically the same
results as I had when I sent the movie
| | 08:07 | from iMovie over using the Share menu
and choosing iDVD. So I created this
| | 08:14 | movie in iMovie, I shared it to the
Media Browser and then from the Media
| | 08:17 | Browser in iDVD, I dragged it into my project.
| | 08:20 | And again, the advantage of exporting
to the Media Browser is I can now access
| | 08:23 | these movies from other programs. So
for example, if I were to open up iWeb,
| | 08:28 | and open up its Media Browser by
Clicking Show Media, here under Movies I can
| | 08:33 | go to Bryce Canon Trip and I see the
exact same two videos available here. And
| | 08:37 | maybe I want to grab the Medium version
for posting this on the web, drag this
| | 08:41 | into the placeholder that I
have here, and there it is.
| | 08:48 | So that's the advantage of using the
Media Browser. But again, if you're only
| | 08:52 | really interested in sending a movie
from iMovie to iDVD without any extra
| | 08:56 | steps and without making the movie
available to the other iLife applications,
| | 09:00 | just choose Share > iDVD and your
movie will get exported and optimized for
| | 09:04 | iDVD and sent over in just one step.
| | 09:06 | So those are the methods for sending
your iMovie projects to iDVD. iMovie '09
| | 09:12 | does have a newly reintroduced ability
to add chapter markers to your movies,
| | 09:15 | which automates the creation of scene selection menus
in iDVD. But I'll talk about that in the next chapter.
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3. Automating iDVDMagic iDVD| 00:00 | In this chapter we are going to take
a look at some ways to create great
| | 00:03 | looking DVDs with minimal effort by letting iDVD's
automation features do a lot of your work for you.
| | 00:08 | And the first method we are going to
look at is called Magic iDVD and you use
| | 00:12 | this when you have a movie or movies on
your Mac that you are ready to burn to
| | 00:16 | a DVD, as opposed to when you have
movies still sitting on your video camera,
| | 00:20 | in which case you will use OneStep DVD
which we'll look at in the next movie.
| | 00:24 | But Magic iDVD is for those times when
you have movies or photos you want to
| | 00:27 | burn to a DVD, or when you don't want
to spend a lot of time customizing themes
| | 00:31 | or adding buttons or making any
other changes. You basically just want to
| | 00:34 | create your project as quickly
as possible with minimal effort.
| | 00:39 | So here in the opening window where
iDVD is asking what I want to do, I'm going
| | 00:42 | to Click Magic iDVD. So the interface
you see when you are using Magic iDVD, it
| | 00:48 | looks a little bit different than
when you are working on a standard iDVD
| | 00:51 | project. But this is basically just a
quick way to specify the initial settings
| | 00:55 | of your DVD project and then you can
create the project and customize it just
| | 00:59 | as much as you could a regular DVD project.
| | 01:01 | Let's work our way from top to bottom.
First we've got our DVD Title. I'm going
| | 01:06 | to call this Bryce Canyon. Then we can
choose the theme and you can see we have
| | 01:11 | all the themes available that are
installed in our copies of iDVD. I'm
| | 01:13 | currently looking at the 7.0 Themes,
but we could choose from the 6.0 Themes,
| | 01:18 | the Old Themes, any Favorites you
might have customized or we could look to
| | 01:22 | them All. I'm just going to go
with these Stretch theme to this one.
| | 01:26 | Next, we've two area of what are
called the wells. The wells are for the
| | 01:30 | dropping in the movies and photos you
want to add to your DVD. And you can grab
| | 01:33 | the photos and movies from your Media Browser or just
drag them in from another folder somewhere on your Mac.
| | 01:38 | Let's go to the photo slideshow first.
And to do so, all you have to do is drag
| | 01:43 | in the photos you want to use in your
slideshow into the photo wells. Now the
| | 01:46 | important thing to note here is that
each one of these wells represents a
| | 01:50 | separate slideshow. So don't drag
photos into the each one of these wells
| | 01:54 | unless you intend on
creating multiple slideshows.
| | 01:56 | If you just want to create one
slideshow, I can just go to my Media Browser,
| | 02:00 | into Photos and I'm just going to use
the Bryce Canyon photo album I created
| | 02:04 | previously. If you didn't create a
Bryce Canyon photo album in iPhoto and you
| | 02:08 | want to work along with me, you can go
into exercise files and use Bryce Canyon
| | 02:12 | pics, which are the same photos. But
if I want to create a slideshow, I could
| | 02:15 | just select an image, drag it into the
first well and I now have a one photo slideshow.
| | 02:21 | To add more photos to the slideshow, I
don't drag next to it or else that would
| | 02:24 | create a second slideshow. Let me drag
that out of there. I would drag on top
| | 02:28 | of that current slideshow and now you
see we have two slides in that show. And
| | 02:32 | I can drag and select multiple photos
and drag them all into that slideshow.
| | 02:37 | But of course, if I did want to create
a multiple slideshow, I could just maybe
| | 02:40 | grab these last four images, drag them to an
empty well, and now we have two slideshows.
| | 02:46 | Similarly, if I have movies I want to
add to my DVD, I just drag them into the
| | 02:49 | movie wells. So if I go into my
exercise files, I have this video called
| | 02:53 | Southern Utah, which I'll
drag in, and there it is.
| | 02:56 | If I had more movies I wanted to add,
if I go into the Southern Utah folder,
| | 03:01 | maybe I want to grab these first five
movies, I would drag them into the well
| | 03:06 | and you can see those are actually
distributed among the other movies wells.
| | 03:09 | They are not stacked on top of
each other like in a slideshow.
| | 03:12 | And if I do happen to drag in more
movies than there are wells, for instance,
| | 03:15 | if I select two more movies and drag
them into this empty well here, you can
| | 03:20 | see that the movie well area
just expands into a second row.
| | 03:24 | So you can add as many movies as you
like as long as long as you have room on
| | 03:27 | your DVD. I'm actually just going to
drag this out of there. So that's pretty
| | 03:31 | much other is to do in the Magic
iDVD interface, I have created a title,
| | 03:35 | I chose a theme and I dragged in some
movies and photos. And also note that you
| | 03:39 | can, if you want to; drag in movies to your slideshow
just by dragging audio files on top of the slideshows.
| | 03:45 | So if I went to the audio section of
my Media Browser, maybe I'll grab song
| | 03:50 | from the jingles area, and I like this
Pendulum song. So I'll just drag that on
| | 03:58 | top of one of my slideshows and you
can see a little speaker icon appears,
| | 04:02 | telling me that I have added audio to
the slideshow. So again that is pretty
| | 04:06 | much all you really do here
in the Magic iDVD interface.
| | 04:09 | Now before I create my project with
these settings, I do have the option of
| | 04:12 | previewing my DVD as though it were
being played in the DVD player. So I can
| | 04:16 | Click Preview. So here is my main menu.
Here is the title I created, Bryce
| | 04:23 | Canyon. Now it has the 5 after it,
because I have created a couple different
| | 04:26 | projects called Bryce Canyon up to this
point, but I'll be able to change that
| | 04:29 | when I go to edit this project.
| | 04:30 | So you can see we also have our Movies
and Slideshow buttons. If I go in to Movies,
| | 04:36 | there are the six movies I dragged in.
I can select from any of those six,
| | 04:44 | go back to the main menu, and
here is my Slideshow menu and here are the
| | 04:55 | two slideshows I created, and there it is.
| | 04:59 | So I'm pretty happy with this project
as I have set it up using Magic iDVD. Now
| | 05:04 | if I wanted to bring this just as it is,
I would just come down to the lower
| | 05:06 | right-hand corner and Click the Burn
button. iDVD would create the project and
| | 05:11 | ask me to insert a DVD and then it would encode
the project and burn the disk and I'll be done.
| | 05:16 | But I do want to make a couple of more
changes to the project, so I'm going to
| | 05:18 | Click Create Project and now I'm
looking at the regular iDVD window and I can
| | 05:24 | customize this Magic iDVD generated
project just like I could customize any
| | 05:28 | project I created from scratch. So for
instance, I could come in here and get
| | 05:32 | rid of that 5 at the end of Bryce Canyon,
maybe I want to go in the slideshows
| | 05:38 | and change these names from My
Slideshow to Slideshow 1 and Slideshow 2.
| | 05:46 | I can even go into the slideshows
themselves and start rearranging photos or
| | 05:53 | make any of the other changes that we saw you could make
when we were looking at how to create slideshows in iDVD.
| | 05:57 | And that is pretty much all there is
to Magic iDVD. Again, it's just a really
| | 06:05 | quick way to start assembling your
project. Instead of having to decide where
| | 06:09 | to place buttons or movies, you just
pick a theme and drag in your assets. iDVD
| | 06:13 | will place these assets into their
default places and create your DVD for you,
| | 06:17 | and then you are free to make any changes you
want to the project or just burn the DVD as is.
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| Creating a OneStep DVD| 00:00 | Now let's take a look at the OneStep
DVD feature of iDVD. This is a feature
| | 00:04 | that's used for a very specific
purpose in iDVD, mainly to burn the DVD
| | 00:08 | directly from footage on a DV tape in
your DV camera. With OneStep DVD, you can
| | 00:13 | completely bypass the process of creating a new project,
choosing a theme, customizing menus or any of that stuff.
| | 00:19 | OneStep DVD lives up to its name
because you simply connect your camera to your
| | 00:23 | Mac and Click OneStep DVD. One
important note before I begin, OneStep DVD will
| | 00:28 | only work with non-HD footage shot on
tape based cameras connected to your Mac
| | 00:32 | by a FireWire. If you have a newer
hard drive or a disc-based high-definition
| | 00:36 | camera, you won't be able to use
OneStep DVD directly from your camera. But
| | 00:40 | I'll show you a way to use a slightly
different OneStep feature at the end of this movie.
| | 00:44 | So to use OneStep DVD with your DV
camera, you connect it to your Mac by a
| | 00:48 | FireWire cable. And once you do so,
iDVD prompts you to insert a blank DVD and
| | 00:53 | then it takes control of your camera,
rewinding the tape and then importing all
| | 00:56 | the footage on that tape. Once it's
grabbed, everything off the tape, or if
| | 01:00 | iDVD comes across ten seconds of blank
tape, it will also start capturing. It
| | 01:04 | then processes and burns the
footage to a DVD with no themes or menus.
| | 01:08 | The final product is a copy of
everything on your tape that will play right
| | 01:11 | away, when inserted into a DVD player.
So you would only use OneStep DVD if you
| | 01:15 | are okay with not editing anything on
your tape or if you are not interested in
| | 01:18 | having any menus or slideshows on your
DVD. So again we connect our camera with
| | 01:23 | a tape inserted into it, power it on
and make sure it's in playback or VCR
| | 01:27 | mode. On some cameras it's called VTR mode.
| | 01:30 | I have already attached my camera to
my Mac and turned it on. Next you open
| | 01:33 | iDVD, and you Click OneStep DVD. You
will be prompted to insert a recordable
| | 01:40 | DVD disc. I'll go ahead and do that.
You can see it is waiting for the device
| | 01:46 | to become ready. So if your tape is
not rewind yet, iDVD will actually rewind
| | 01:51 | the tape all the way to the
beginning for you and here it goes.
| | 01:55 | So you can see it's rewinding the tape
and now it's playing back my footage on
| | 02:03 | my tape and this is just a footage I
captured in San Francisco. While this
| | 02:07 | process is going on, you should just go
find something else to do for a while.
| | 02:10 | If you have a full tape, iDVD is
going to grab the footage from it in
| | 02:13 | real-time. So it will take about an
hour to get all the footage off a full DV
| | 02:17 | tape. Then iDVD has to process the
footage and turn it into a disc. Just don't
| | 02:21 | worry that iDVD seems to be taking hours to
create your DVD. That can be perfectly normal.
| | 02:27 | But I don't think we need to sit here
and watch iDVD importing footage. The
| | 02:30 | rest of the process is pretty self-
explanatory. I'm just going to Click Stop
| | 02:36 | and Cancel. But if you are using
OneStep DVD, just let it keep running and
| | 02:41 | eventually, iDVD will eject your burned DVD
ready to be played in a standard set-top DVD player.
| | 02:47 | Now as I mentioned earlier, if the
footage in your tape is in high-definition
| | 02:50 | format or if your camera connects to
your Mac by a USB instead of FireWire,
| | 02:54 | OneStep DVD won't work. Instead you
have to import your footage into iMovie
| | 02:58 | first, so again we looked at iMovie
before. So you'll export your footage into
| | 03:02 | iMovie, create your project, and then
you can export it to the Media Browser
| | 03:06 | using the same steps we saw earlier,
choosing Share > Media Browser or you can
| | 03:09 | also export your final movie to some
place else on your Mac and then back in
| | 03:14 | iDVD, you can choose File > OneStep DVD
from Movie. So this is like OneStep DVD
| | 03:20 | except instead of pulling the
footage off of a camera, you are using the
| | 03:23 | footage from a movie file somewhere on your Mac.
| | 03:26 | So iDVD asks you to locate the file
you want to use and just as an example,
| | 03:30 | I'll go to my Desktop into exercise
files, and I'll just grab Southern Utah,
| | 03:34 | Click Import, and again we sort to
see the same thing here. It's going to
| | 03:39 | encode the movie and then it's going to
burn the movie to a disc. I don't have
| | 03:43 | to worry about themes or menus
or creating a project at all.
| | 03:46 | So this is again just another version
of OneStep DVD. But instead of coming off
| | 03:50 | the camera, we are coming off a movie
far right here on my Mac. But in either
| | 03:54 | case, iDVD will handle everything from encoding to
burning to final disc, once you start the OneStep DVD process.
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| Using iMovie '09 to create chapter markers| 00:00 | In the previous chapter, we saw how
iDVD can automatically create Chapter
| | 00:04 | Markers or Scene Selection menus in
your DVD projects to provide your viewers
| | 00:08 | with a way to jump to different
sections of the movies on your disc. We also
| | 00:12 | saw that iDVD's Scene Selection
capabilities are limited, in that you can only
| | 00:15 | add Chapter Markers every X number
of minutes, rather than being able to
| | 00:19 | specify exact points in your
movies for the markers to appear.
| | 00:23 | So if you have a movie in your DVD
project to which you want to add Chapter
| | 00:25 | markers, you have to choose to insert
them, say every five minutes, with no way
| | 00:29 | to vary the amount of time between the
markers. The problem is most movies are
| | 00:33 | not going to fall into these nice on
the minute increments. Your scene changes
| | 00:37 | are going to happen sporadically and
ideally, you want to give your viewers the
| | 00:40 | ability to jump to a specific scene
instead of just jumping say three minutes
| | 00:44 | ahead, and then having to figure
out if that's what they want to watch.
| | 00:48 | But the good news is that iMovie '09
part of the iLife '09 suite now has the
| | 00:52 | ability to add Chapter Markers to its
projects. You can then export your movie
| | 00:56 | into which you have to added Chapter
Markers into iDVD, which will in turn
| | 00:59 | automatically convert those Chapter
Markers into a Scene Selection menu.
| | 01:02 | So let's take a look at how to do this
by switching over to iMovie. I'm going
| | 01:07 | to create a new project. I'll call this
Southern Utah, leave it Widescreen, No
| | 01:14 | theme, Click Create, and the footage
I'll use for this example is the main
| | 01:19 | Southern Utah video that's already been edited
together that's in the exercise files folder.
| | 01:23 | So I'm going to choose File > Import >
Movies and in my exercise files folder,
| | 01:32 | I'll select Southern Utah.m4v. I'm
going to create a new event. I'll call this
| | 01:37 | Southern Utah Complete since it's
already been edited together, and I'm going
| | 01:42 | to copy the files and Click Import.
| | 01:44 | Okay. So here is the footage, we just
brought in, and again since this movie
| | 01:52 | has already been edited together,
I'm just going to Click in here, Click
| | 01:55 | Command+A to select it all, and just drag it
all into my new project. So there is my video.
| | 02:03 | Of course when you are working on
your own movies, you'll probably want to
| | 02:05 | spend some time editing them together.
But once your edits are complete, you
| | 02:08 | can then start adding Chapter Markers.
And there is really no hard and fast
| | 02:12 | rule for this. Just consider which
portions of your movie you think people
| | 02:15 | might want to jump to, or even think
about situations where you are playing the
| | 02:18 | disc for friends, and you'll want to
have convenient locations on the disc to
| | 02:21 | jump to. Maybe you are making a DVD of
your vacation footage, and it will make
| | 02:25 | sense to have day 1, day 2, day 3
Chapter Markers or maybe markers like at the
| | 02:30 | airport, at the hotel pool, on the
guided tour, it's really all up to you.
| | 02:35 | When you export a movie with Chapter
Markers to iDVD there will be a Chapter
| | 02:38 | Marker place at the beginning of the
movie by default. So you don't have to put
| | 02:41 | one there yourself. But now I'm just going to go
through and add some Chapter Markers to the rest of my movie.
| | 02:46 | To add a Chapter Marker, all I need to
do is drag this icon with a little arrow
| | 02:50 | on it to the point where I want the
marker to appear. So for instance,
| | 02:53 | as I skim through my project here, maybe
right here this opening scene where we see
| | 03:01 | the hikers sort of walk through and
then continue up the path. I'm going to
| | 03:05 | grab the Chapter Marker, drag in and
as I just skim through, I can decide
| | 03:10 | exactly where I want that marker to
appear. So maybe right here, when it dips
| | 03:13 | to white, right before it comes back
out. Maybe right there, I'll release.
| | 03:19 | You can see that puts a Chapter
Marker here in iMovie and just gives it the
| | 03:22 | name of 1, but we can customize that,
and I'll just call this Hiking. And I'll
| | 03:27 | continue doing the same, let's grab
another Chapter Marker and I'll just skim
| | 03:30 | through it for where I want to put
the next marker, on this nice shot of
| | 03:36 | clouds. It's a very short shot, but
it's pretty nice. So let's go back a little
| | 03:39 | bit, put the marker there,
we'll call this Clouds.
| | 03:44 | Let's do one for these flowers, this
nice close-up of flowers. I can just drag
| | 03:53 | in through until I find the spot where
I want the Chapter Marker to appear. And
| | 04:00 | maybe I'll do one more, or maybe two
more. Let's do these stacks, got these
| | 04:05 | stacks of rocks here. I'm just
dragging to find the beginning, right there,
| | 04:10 | Stacks. And we'll do one more for the sunset, right
about there, and that's really all there is to it.
| | 04:23 | I am just going through my movie and
dragging Chapter Markers to the areas
| | 04:25 | where I think they will be useful to have. So now I'm
pretty much ready to import this movie into iDVD at this point.
| | 04:31 | Now I have the same two options
available for me to send this movie to iDVD as
| | 04:35 | we saw in the previous chapter. I can
choose Share > Media Browser and I would
| | 04:40 | do this again if I want to make this
video available to not just iDVD, but to
| | 04:43 | all the other iLife applications like
GarageBand or iWeb that can use movies.
| | 04:48 | And again, I just pick the size that I
want to export, and then I'll have each
| | 04:51 | different size available in my iLife
applications. But one thing to keep in
| | 04:54 | mind here though is that Chapter Markers will
not be added to the tiny versions of the movies.
| | 05:00 | But if you are planning on exporting to
iDVD, you probably don't want to send a
| | 05:02 | low-resolution version of your movies
anyway. You'll want to stick with Medium,
| | 05:05 | Large or HD, I'll just cancel that. And
the other option for sending an iMovie
| | 05:10 | movie to iDVD is just Share > iDVD.
And I'm going to pick that for this
| | 05:15 | example, but before I do so, I need to go to iDVD
and make sure an important preference is turned on.
| | 05:22 | Now in order to get to my preferences,
I'll need to have a project open. So I'm
| | 05:24 | just going to open the existing project
on my Desktop, which is the file I was
| | 05:28 | working on previously. I'm going to go
to iDVD > Preferences, and under Movies,
| | 05:37 | we have this area called When importing
movies and then we have three options.
| | 05:42 | With Create chapter sub-menu selected,
iDVD will always look for Chapter
| | 05:45 | Markers in the movies you import, and if it finds any, it
will automatically create the Scene Selection menus for you.
| | 05:51 | If you have, Do not create chapter sub-
menu selected, no Scene Selection menus
| | 05:54 | will be created which sort of defeats
the purpose of adding Chapter Markers to
| | 05:57 | your movies, or you can pick Always ask
to choose whether or not to add chapter
| | 06:01 | sub-menus each time you
import a menu with Chapter Markers.
| | 06:04 | I am going to leave Create chapter sub-
menu selected. I'll go ahead and close
| | 06:09 | our projects, because I don't need
that anymore. And let's go back to iMovie
| | 06:11 | and now we are ready to choose Share >
iDVD to send this project over it iDVD.
| | 06:18 | So here we are in iDVD. A brand new
project has automatically been created for me,
| | 06:23 | and I have this Play Movie button
as well as a Scene Selection button that
| | 06:27 | was automatically generated. Let's
Double-Click that, and here are the scenes
| | 06:33 | or chapters I created in iMovie '09. I
Click the Motion menu. You can see that
| | 06:38 | there is actually some video playing in these.
| | 06:40 | (Music playing.)
| | 06:43 | Again iMovie automatically generated
a beginning Chapter Marker for me.
| | 06:46 | I didn't have to do that. But now I can
Click any of these Scene Selection menus
| | 06:49 | to jump right to that section of my
movie. Clicking the Next button takes me
| | 06:57 | to the next Chapter Markers so I
can now navigate via Chapter Markers.
| | 07:05 | And now I'm free to do anything else
to this project, I want to customize it.
| | 07:07 | So I can come in here, maybe pick
another Theme. I'll go under Revolution and
| | 07:12 | we do have a Chapter menu, select that,
and there is that menu. So that's all
| | 07:17 | there is to it. In iMovie, just drag
Chapter Markers wherever you want them to
| | 07:21 | appear, and when you are done,
share the video with iDVD and your Scene
| | 07:24 | Selection menus will be created automatically as long
as you have that correct preference selected in iDVD.
| | 07:30 | And I suggest this method of using
iMovie to create Chapter Markers before you
| | 07:34 | import your movies into iDVD, so you
can control where those markers appear,
| | 07:38 | rather than using iDVD Scene Selection
capabilities which limit you to spacing
| | 07:42 | out Chapter Markers by minutes and that
doesn't always make the most sense for your movies.
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| Using the DVD map| 00:00 | The last automation feature I want
to show you isn't really an automation
| | 00:03 | feature, but it's a different and
sometimes faster way to create your DVD project.
| | 00:07 | We've seen that you can build your DVD
by starting from, say, the main menu and
| | 00:12 | dragging in movies or photos or
creating sub-menus and building pages off of
| | 00:16 | those, and that process works great. But I'd like
to show you another method here using the DVD Map.
| | 00:21 | Now we've already taken a brief look
at the DVD Map, but we are going to go
| | 00:26 | into a little more depth here. And
actually, I'm going to open up my Southern
| | 00:29 | Utah DVD project that we have been
working on through out this tutorial,
| | 00:34 | because it's a closest to being
complete. So I'm just going to not bother
| | 00:37 | saving that project. I'm done here.
And this is my Southern Utah project.
| | 00:42 | Now I can look at the DVD Map to show
you what a fairly complex DVD project
| | 00:46 | looks like in Map view. As your DVD
project gets larger it and as you start to
| | 00:51 | add more sub-menus or slideshows or
movies, keeping track of everything on the
| | 00:54 | DVD from just the main menu can get
kind of difficult. The DVD Map gives you a
| | 00:58 | nice organized graphical
representation of every single item on your DVD.
| | 01:03 | Each of these squares or icons
represents an item on your DVD, whether it's a
| | 01:07 | movie, a menu, or a slideshow. The icon
in the upper left-hand corner tells you
| | 01:12 | what kind of items it is. So we have
a movie icon, a photo icon, which is
| | 01:16 | basically a menu. I scroll down a
bit. We've got a slideshow icon.
| | 01:22 | The lines drawn from one icon to
another tells you that item can be accessed on
| | 01:26 | the menu that it's connected to. So you
can see off the main menu here there is
| | 01:30 | a line to Southern Utah Trip. That's a
sub-menu and there is another line off
| | 01:34 | of that to Play Movie, but you can also from that
Southern Utah Trip menu access our Scene Selections.
| | 01:40 | You can Click the triangles on the right
-hand side of the icons to hide or show
| | 01:44 | all of those sub-menus connected of
that menu. Also you can change this from a
| | 01:48 | left to right layout to a top-down
layout using the buttons in the lower
| | 01:52 | left-hand corner. So now we are
looking top-down and you can see there is a
| | 01:54 | slider to zoom out from your map, which can
give you a good overview of your entire project.
| | 02:00 | Let me go ahead and switch back to left
to right view. Let's make that a little
| | 02:05 | bit bigger. But the Map view isn't
just for examining your existing content.
| | 02:10 | From here you can also add new menus,
movies and slideshows, and if you have a
| | 02:14 | good idea of how you want your DVD
laid out, this can be much quicker than
| | 02:17 | creating the links to the
content from the main menu.
| | 02:20 | Let's create a new project. I'm just
going to save this on my Desktop and call
| | 02:25 | it Bryce Canyon, and I'll switch over
to Map view in this new blank project.
| | 02:33 | I know I want to have a main movie that
will play right off the main menu and
| | 02:37 | I want a sub-menu of deleted scenes and
I also want to add a slideshow of photos.
| | 02:41 | In the previous chapter we did this
all from the main menu by coming in here
| | 02:46 | and choosing to add a sub-menu, add a
movie, or add a slideshow. Let's go back
| | 02:51 | to the Map. Watch how quickly I can do
this from here in the Map. With the main
| | 02:56 | menu selected, I can just choose Add
Submenu, Add Movie, and Add Slideshow.
| | 03:03 | So now I have these placeholders for
these items. And if I leave Map view, you
| | 03:06 | can see those placeholders have been
added to the menu. And to add content to
| | 03:11 | these menus, I just need to find the
content that I want to add, let's go into
| | 03:14 | my exercise files here, and I'll add
Southern Utah to the Movie icon. I'll drag
| | 03:20 | my Bryce Canyon photos to My
Slideshow. And notice if I Double-Click My
| | 03:25 | Slideshow, I can go in and edit the
slideshow just like any other slideshow,
| | 03:28 | because it is just a regular slideshow at
this point. So let's go back to our Map.
| | 03:32 | Now I also know I have three deleted scenes
I want to link from the sub-menu I created.
| | 03:37 | Now I could just select it and
then choose Add Movie three times, but
| | 03:41 | instead I'm going to go find the
movies I want to add, and again I'm dragging
| | 03:45 | these in from my exercise files folder.
If you want to drag in from your Media
| | 03:48 | Browser, that will work as well.
| | 03:50 | Now I'm going to drag these three
movies onto that sub-menu, and you can see
| | 03:54 | that it instantly adds those movies
to that sub-menu. If I go look at that
| | 03:58 | sub-menu, there they are Deleted
Scenes 1, 2, and 3. Clicking on any of those
| | 04:04 | takes me to those deleted scenes.
Let's go back to the Map view again.
| | 04:11 | So I think you'll agree that this is
a really quick way to layout and build
| | 04:14 | your entire DVD. It does really helps
if you have a good idea of how your DVD
| | 04:18 | is going to be designed, but you can
still play around in here by adding and
| | 04:21 | deleting sub-menus, movies,
and photos as much as you like.
| | 04:25 | If you change your mind about a menu
that you added, for instance, maybe I want
| | 04:27 | to delete this sub-menu. All I have to
do is select it and hit the Delete key
| | 04:31 | on my keyboard. But note that also deleted the three
movies connected to that menu. Let me choose Edit > Undo.
| | 04:38 | If I want to get rid of this menu,
but keep the movies I can Right-Click or
| | 04:42 | Ctrl+Click that icon and choose Smart
Delete. That removes the menu, but it
| | 04:47 | keeps the items linked from it and
moves those items up to the link from the
| | 04:50 | next available menu, which
in this case is the main menu.
| | 04:53 | If I go and check out the main menu,
you can see that those deleted scenes have
| | 04:57 | now been added to the main menu. And
of course, if I did that by accident,
| | 05:02 | I can just hit Command+Z on my
keyboard until I get that menu back.
| | 05:08 | Now lastly, you might also notice
that the Map also displays these little
| | 05:11 | warning symbols in the lower left-hand
corners of the icons. These let you know
| | 05:15 | that something needs to be checked out
on one of the menus before you burn the
| | 05:19 | disk. So for instance, if I rollover
them, I'll see messages like menu has
| | 05:22 | empty drop zones, and this one
also has an empty drop zones.
| | 05:26 | So for example, if I go into this menu
and open its Drop Zone editor, you can
| | 05:32 | see there are actually three drop
zones there. Let's just occupy those by
| | 05:36 | dragging in some photos from our Media
Browser. There we go. And now if I go
| | 05:43 | back to the Map view, I can see
that warning icon has now disappeared.
| | 05:48 | So that's iDVD's Map view. A great
way not only to checkout how your DVD is
| | 05:52 | laid out, but also a great way to
quickly build your entire project.
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4. Exporting from iDVDBurning a disc| 00:00 | Once you are done assembling your
project in iDVD and you're ready to share
| | 00:03 | your creation with the world or at
least your friends and family, it's time to
| | 00:07 | actually burn your DVD. But there are
a few things you should do beforehand
| | 00:11 | just to make sure you have all your
bases covered and to help the burning
| | 00:13 | process go a little more smoothly. I'm
working with the Southern Utah project
| | 00:18 | we created in chapter 3, but you
don't need to use the same one.
| | 00:21 | The steps I'm covering here pretty
much go for every project you work on in
| | 00:23 | iDVD and you probably don't want to
waste a blank DVD burning the exercise
| | 00:27 | files from this tutorial anyway. But
the first thing you should do before you
| | 00:31 | burn your disc is to go to Project >
Project Info and in here you want to make
| | 00:37 | sure your DVD has the title you want,
in this case Southern Utah Trip.
| | 00:41 | If yours still says my great DVD,
which is the default name of projects, you
| | 00:44 | probably want to change it to
something a little more descriptive. Now this
| | 00:47 | point you can still change all the
options like Video Mode, Encoding, Aspect
| | 00:52 | Ratio and DVD Type. But if you do
make changes like if you change from
| | 00:55 | Widescreen to Standard, you want to
make sure and go through your entire DVD
| | 00:59 | and check all of your menus to
make sure nothing has been cut off.
| | 01:01 | If you need to change the Video Mode
for a friend you are sending this video to
| | 01:05 | in Europe where they use the PAL format,
you can do that very easily right here
| | 01:08 | and you can also change the
Encoding Mode. If you have the default Best
| | 01:12 | Performance mode selected, iDVD has
most likely been encoding your project the
| | 01:16 | entire time you have been building it.
So it'll take less time to burn the DVD.
| | 01:20 | In fact, if you look at the bottom of
my Project Info window you can see that
| | 01:22 | iDVD has already encoded all
of the assets for my project.
| | 01:25 | I see under Encoding heading here
everything says done. When you're working on
| | 01:29 | your own project you might still see
some progress bars down here indicating
| | 01:32 | that iDVD is still encoding some of
your files, but that doesn't mean that you
| | 01:36 | can't Click the Burn button yet. It
just means that iDVD will still need to
| | 01:39 | finish encoding your files before
it burns the disc. And again the Best
| | 01:43 | Performance option is probably best for when
you have less than an hour of content on your DVD.
| | 01:47 | If you have more, you might want to
switch to High or Professional Quality to
| | 01:51 | get the best looking picture from
your DVD. But again be aware that High
| | 01:54 | Quality will take longer than Best
Performance to process and burn and
| | 01:59 | Professional Quality will most
likely take twice as long as High Quality.
| | 02:04 | And finally you can choose the type of
DVD you're going to be burning to. iDVD
| | 02:07 | can burn to both single layer DVDs and
dual layer or double layer DVDs. Double
| | 02:13 | layer DVDs can hold twice as much
content, but be aware that not all set-top
| | 02:16 | DVD players can play them, especially
older ones. So it's best to stick to
| | 02:20 | single layer DVDs unless you're sure
your intended audience will be able to
| | 02:23 | play a dual layer DVD or if you know
they'll be watching your DVD on a computer
| | 02:28 | because all computers with DVD drives should
be able to read a dual or double layer DVD.
| | 02:33 | Now as far as the type of DVDs iDVD
can burn, you can use any disc-labeled
| | 02:36 | DVD-R, DVD-RW, which are rewritable
discs, DVD+R, DVD+RW and DVD+RDL for dual
| | 02:48 | layer. But again if you want to give
your project the best shot at being
| | 02:51 | successfully played on a set-top DVD
player, you'll want to stick with DVD-R.
| | 02:54 | Now you also want to keep an eye on
the Quality and Capacity bars here.
| | 03:01 | Now I don't have much to put on this.
So I'm going to be fine with my quality
| | 03:03 | in this particular example. But if
this arrow in the Capacity bar moves into
| | 03:08 | the red and eventually the Quality bar
will turn yellow and eventually red on
| | 03:12 | the right side as it fell on your DVD,
you might want to consider removing some
| | 03:15 | content from the disc to make sure the
quality of the video doesn't suffer or
| | 03:19 | switch to Professional Quality Video Encoding
to make sure you get the best possible picture.
| | 03:24 | Also note that iDVD will list every
single asset that you're using in your
| | 03:30 | project. If they all have a checkmark
next to them in the Status column then
| | 03:35 | iDVD knows where all these files are
and it'll be able to burn the disc. That
| | 03:39 | actually brings up a very important
point. Once you have dragged the movies or
| | 03:42 | photos into your DVD project don't
change their location on your Mac, or else
| | 03:46 | iDVD might not be able to find them.
| | 03:48 | And once you're done checking things
out here you can close the Project Info
| | 03:51 | window and before you burn the disc
it's still a good idea to hit the Preview
| | 03:56 | button and go through the entire DVD
menu by menu to make sure every thing is
| | 04:00 | looking and behaving the way it's
supposed to. Because burning is going to take
| | 04:03 | a while and you don't want to wait
potentially several hours only to discover
| | 04:06 | afterwards that there is a mistake on
the disc. That will mean you'll have to
| | 04:09 | fix the problem and then re-encode
and burn everything all over again.
| | 04:13 | So I would want to go through here, maybe
Click the Preview button. That looks good.
| | 04:20 | I'll go into Southern Utah,
there's my menu. Here I have a menu that
| | 04:31 | doesn't act or look like the other
menus at the top, this underline going on
| | 04:34 | here. So if I want to fix that, I
could come in with that selected, go to
| | 04:38 | Buttons, get rid of the underline
style for the button and maybe just bring
| | 04:44 | this over and line that up. And again,
this is just an example but you do want
| | 04:50 | to go through your DVD menu by menu
and just make sure everything looks and
| | 04:53 | acts exactly the way you want.
| | 04:57 | And once your disc is ready to go,
Click the Burn button. Now iDVD will alert
| | 05:02 | you if it finds any errors like empty
drop zones or missing buttons but if both
| | 05:07 | iDVD and you have seen no errors, they
will ask you to insert a recordable DVD
| | 05:11 | disc after you Click the Burn button
and once you do that the burning will
| | 05:14 | start. Then you can just leave your Mac
and go find something else to do for a
| | 05:18 | while because personally I think it's
a good idea to not do any other work on
| | 05:21 | your computer while burning a DVD is going on.
| | 05:24 | Just to make sure you don't introduce
any glitches to the disc. I'm not saying
| | 05:27 | that'll necessarily happen if you're
working on something else while you're
| | 05:30 | burning a disc. But I just think if you
don't have anything else to do on your
| | 05:32 | Mac you might just leave it alone
while the disc is burning. And when the
| | 05:35 | burning is done, iDVD will eject your
DVD and offer you the option of inserting
| | 05:39 | another blank disc to burn another copy.
| | 05:42 | So if you intend on burning more than
one copy that would be the time to do it
| | 05:45 | because all the encoding has already
been done and saved and the subsequent
| | 05:48 | discs will burn a lot faster than the
first one. If you decide not to burn
| | 05:52 | another copy at that time you can
still burn another copy at a later time but
| | 05:55 | iDVD may have to do some processing again
and it may take as long as the first time did.
| | 06:00 | If you can spare the time in another
disc, I suggest burning a second copy
| | 06:03 | anyway just so we have one on hand
and just in case the first one was a bad
| | 06:07 | disc. That doesn't happen a lot but it
does happen. So it doesn't hurt to have
| | 06:10 | a backup. And speaking of bad discs,
try to steer clear of DVDs branded with
| | 06:15 | the names of office supply
stores or other cheaper DVDs.
| | 06:19 | Those DVDs are good for using as data
storage but don't use them for playing
| | 06:22 | back video. I often get asked for
recommendations on where to purchase DVDs.
| | 06:27 | I purchased mine online at
supermediastore.com and I'm not getting paid to
| | 06:32 | recommend them but I do order from
them and they carry a lot of top quality
| | 06:35 | DVDs and I also like that they let
users review the products they carry, so you
| | 06:38 | can read about other people's
experiences with the different brands of DVDs to
| | 06:42 | help you decide which ones to purchase.
I have always had good luck with the
| | 06:45 | Taiyo Yuden brand of DVDs but that's just me
and again I'm not getting paid to endorse them.
| | 06:53 | That's pretty much the process of
preparing for and burning your DVD. When it's
| | 06:57 | done, be sure to test your DVD
thoroughly and if you can test it on at least
| | 07:00 | two DVD players probably set-top DVD
players to make sure it's working and if
| | 07:05 | it is, it's a pretty safe bet that it'll work in
the DVD player of anyone you send the disc to.
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| Creating a disc image| 00:00 | In addition to burning a DVD directly
from iDVD, another option you have for
| | 00:04 | getting the finished project out of
iDVD into a playable format is to create a
| | 00:08 | disc image of your project. The disc
image is essentially a virtual disc, but
| | 00:13 | instead of burning a physical disc in
your DVD burner, the disc image is saved
| | 00:17 | to your hard drive. These days a lot
of downloadable software comes in a disc
| | 00:21 | image that you mount on your Mac's
Desktop so you can access it as if it were a
| | 00:24 | disc you put into a drive. If you've ever downloaded
software, you're probably familiar with that format.
| | 00:29 | Now why would you want to create a
disc image of your iDVD project? Well, the
| | 00:33 | first reason would be, if you don't
have a DVD burner in your Mac, you can
| | 00:36 | still use iDVD to create your project
and then save it as a disc image to move
| | 00:40 | on to a Mac that does have a DVD
burner. Or maybe you wanted to use your
| | 00:44 | fastest Mac to create the DVD but you
need to burn several copies, and instead
| | 00:49 | of having your main Mac occupied with
burning discs, maybe you have an older
| | 00:52 | Mac with the DVD burner that you can just set up to keep
burning discs while you use your main Mac for other work.
| | 00:58 | So to create a disc image from your
project, just choose File > Save as Disc Image.
| | 01:03 | You'll be asked to save your
file someplace and iDVD will give it the
| | 01:08 | extension of IMG for image. Once you
Click Save, iDVD will still need to finish
| | 01:14 | any encoding just as if you were
burning the file to an actual DVD, so this
| | 01:17 | could still take a while. But when it's
done, you'll end up with an IMG file on
| | 01:21 | your Desktop or wherever you happen to save
it on your Mac. Much like on a cooking show,
| | 01:25 | let me cancel that, I created an image ahead of time,
so you can see what the finished product looks like.
| | 01:32 | So here on my Desktop we see Southern
Utah Trip.img and if I Double-Click that,
| | 01:37 | it mounts just like a DVD, only its
icon looks like a little removable disc.
| | 01:45 | And the contents of that disc, we'll
see we have an AUDIO_TS folder, which is
| | 01:48 | standard on all DVDs as well as a VIDEO
_TS folder, which is also standard on
| | 01:53 | all of video DVDs. If I look in VIDEO_TS,
these are the actual files that make
| | 01:59 | up my DVD. Now don't bother Double-
Clicking or trying to play any of these.
| | 02:02 | The VIDEO_TS folder is a folder that DVD
players, both computer-based and set-top
| | 02:07 | DVD players, need in order to play your disc.
| | 02:11 | Now I also have my Southern Utah Trip
DVD-ROM Contents, if you recall back in
| | 02:14 | Chapter 3 we talked about how to
include additional files on your disc, if you
| | 02:18 | wanted to give people, say, the
original copies of your photos or videos that
| | 02:21 | you use on the DVDs. So if I look in
there, I'll see my Movies folder and my
| | 02:27 | Slideshows folder and then here I can find
all the photos that I used in my slideshow.
| | 02:36 | So with this disc image mounted on my
Mac, I can actually open my Mac's DVD
| | 02:40 | Player application. And you can see
just like that, the DVD Player application
| | 02:49 | starts playing my DVD because it
recognizes that disc image as a regular DVD.
| | 02:53 | Even though there is not a DVD in my
DVD Player, there is an image sitting
| | 02:57 | mounted on my Mac's Desktop.
Let's quit out of there.
| | 03:06 | But again, you're probably not going to
save your project as a disc image just
| | 03:09 | to play it on your computer, you most
likely want to burn a copy of the disc.
| | 03:13 | So to burn an actual DVD from a disc
image, you can use the Disk Utility
| | 03:18 | program that comes on all Macs and
you'll find it inside your Applications
| | 03:20 | folder in the Utilities folder,
and there you'll find Disk Utility.
| | 03:27 | When you open it up you can see that
my Southern Utah disc is recognized and
| | 03:31 | there is the mounted image. If I'm
ready to burn this image to an actual
| | 03:35 | physical disc, I'll just select the
image, Click Burn. I'll be asked to insert
| | 03:40 | a disc and then I can Click Burn. Mine
device is busy because my drive is open
| | 03:44 | right now, but basically you'll be
asked to insert a disc and then Click Burn.
| | 03:48 | The one warning here is don't burn a
dual layer disc from Disk Utility. If your
| | 03:52 | project is large enough that it
requires a dual layer DVD, burn it directly
| | 03:55 | from iDVD not from Disk Utility
because Disk Utility has been known to create
| | 03:59 | dual layer disc that don't play in all
set-top players. You'll get better and
| | 04:03 | more consistent results from burning
a dual layer disc in iDVD itself. But
| | 04:07 | otherwise, a disc image is a great way
to create a virtual version of your disc.
| | 04:11 | Now I do want to briefly mention
another option you have in iDVD and that's to
| | 04:16 | save your project as a VIDEO_TS folder.
Again, the VIDEO_TS folder, like we
| | 04:22 | just saw, is where the actual DVD
contents are stored and you can play back the
| | 04:26 | VIDEO_TS folder with the DVD
Player application on your Mac.
| | 04:29 | So again, if I chose Save as VIDEO_TS
folder, again I'll be asked to save to
| | 04:33 | someplace and again I've created one
ahead of time just to show you what that
| | 04:37 | looks like. So this is the folder that
command generated and again you can see
| | 04:42 | it's looks a lot like and nearly identical
to the contents of my mounted disc image.
| | 04:48 | We've got AUDIO_TS, AUDIO_TS, the DVD-
ROM Contents and VIDEO_TS. Let me eject
| | 04:53 | my disc image so you can see that we
are, in fact, looking at the VIDEO_TS
| | 04:58 | generated folder. So again, VIDEO_TS is
the most important folder on your DVD.
| | 05:03 | That's the one that actually contains
all the files necessary to play your disc.
| | 05:07 | So again, if I open up my
Mac's DVD Player application...
| | 05:12 | Now it's not going to play right away
| | 05:14 | because DVD Player does not recognize
any discs mounted on my Mac.
| | 05:18 | But I can just drag that
VIDEO_TS folder to DVD Player...
| | 05:22 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:25 | and you can see just like
that it starts playing.
| | 05:27 | (Music plays.)
| | 05:32 | All right, Quit.
| | 05:35 | But you only really want to make a VIDEO
_TS folder if you don't think you'll be
| | 05:38 | burning your project to a disc, because
neither iDVD nor Disk Utility can burn
| | 05:43 | a VIDEO_TS folder to a DVD. Now there
are programs out there that can do that
| | 05:47 | like Roxio Toast, but if you don't have
Toast, and it is a program you have to
| | 05:51 | purchase, you'll be limited to playing
the VIDEO_TS folder on your Mac, which
| | 05:55 | is fine if that's all you want to do
and it saves you the step of having to
| | 05:57 | mount a disc image each
time you want to play your DVD.
| | 06:01 | So, save a disc image if you don't
have a DVD burner or if you just want a
| | 06:06 | burnable version that you won't have to
re-encode with iDVD each time you burn
| | 06:10 | a copy. Save your project as a VIDEO_
TS folder if you just want to keep a
| | 06:14 | version of your DVD somewhere on your
Mac that won't require you to have to
| | 06:18 | mount a disc image each
time you want to play it.
| | 06:20 | So those are the options you have for
saving your DVD project in a playable
| | 06:23 | format without burning it to an actual DVD.
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| Archiving the project| 00:00 | Once you are done working on your iDVD
project, at least for the foreseeable
| | 00:04 | future, you might want to create an
archive of your project so you can always
| | 00:07 | bring it up again to burn another
copy or to make additional edits.
| | 00:11 | Creating an archive also provides
you a way to get the potentially
| | 00:14 | space-hogging large video files off
your Mac and onto a backup disk if
| | 00:18 | necessary. Because if you are like me,
you might have your DVD project file
| | 00:22 | scattered all over your Mac. I have
movies on my Desktop, in my Movies folders;
| | 00:26 | I have photos on my
Desktop, as well as in iPhoto.
| | 00:29 | And iDVD is linking to all of these
assets in their current location. If I were
| | 00:33 | to move or rename any of these items,
iDVD will not be able to find them and my
| | 00:37 | project would be broken. For example,
in my current Southern Utah Trip project
| | 00:42 | when I click on Southern Utah and Play Movie,
| | 00:47 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:48 | it plays my movie,
just like it's supposed to.
| | 00:49 | (Music plays.)
| | 00:50 | And the movie it's currently
playing is located inside my exercise files
| | 00:53 | and it's called Southern Utah.
| | 00:56 | But if I were to rename this maybe
just to South Utah and now I go and try to
| | 01:02 | play that movie again. I get this
message telling me that there is a broken
| | 01:06 | link. iDVD can no longer find my video.
I'll go ahead and change that back.
| | 01:15 | And once it's changed back and I come
back in here now the movie does play.
| | 01:18 | (Music plays.)
| | 01:20 | So you don't want to move or rename
the assets you are using in your active
| | 01:24 | iDVD projects but when you are done
with your project, you will probably want
| | 01:27 | to collect all of the assets together
and create an archive. Now we create a
| | 01:32 | Project Archive by choosing File >
Archive Project. It will ask me to save the
| | 01:39 | Southern Utah Trip Archived file
somewhere on my computer, I could save it to
| | 01:44 | my Desktop, if I wanted to.
But we also have some options here.
| | 01:47 | If you want to include the themes you
used in the archive, you can keep Include
| | 01:50 | Themes checked. Notice we have a Size
indicator here telling us how much space
| | 01:54 | we might save if we didn't include the theme and
it's only 2 MB in this case, so that's not a big deal.
| | 01:59 | You can also choose to Include encoded
files. Unless you are really short on space,
| | 02:04 | I highly suggest including the
encoded files, so when you do eventually
| | 02:07 | open this archive up to burn another
copy, you won't have to wait for iDVD to
| | 02:11 | re-encode everything again before
burning. But that will add significant file
| | 02:15 | size to your archive. If I uncheck
that it will go from 605 to 331, which is
| | 02:20 | nearly half the size. But again, I
highly suggest you include encoded files.
| | 02:25 | Again, creating an archive creates a
copy of your project keeping all of its
| | 02:29 | elements together and properly linked
within the project file. You can then
| | 02:32 | move that archive to another hard
drive or another Mac and open it any time
| | 02:36 | down the road again to work on it or
to burn another the copy of the DVD, and
| | 02:39 | just like I did before, let me cancel
that and let me quit iDVD for the moment.
| | 02:45 | I have already made an Archive on my
Desktop so you can see what the final
| | 02:48 | product looks like. And you can see
it's just a file with the extension dvdproj
| | 02:52 | for DVD project. So if I Right-Click
on this file and bring up its Info, you
| | 02:57 | can see that its File Size is about 646
MB. Now the original project file this
| | 03:05 | came from, which is this file here, if
I bring up its Info, it's only about 287
| | 03:11 | MB, which again is about the size of the
project without the encoded files included.
| | 03:17 | So this archive file really does
contain my entire project. So I can now move
| | 03:23 | this archive to another hard drive or
another Mac and then open it any time
| | 03:27 | down the road to work on it
again or burn a copy to a DVD.
| | 03:30 | Creating an Archive file is probably a
good idea for any project when you are
| | 03:34 | done with it, because it gives you a
quick way to bring all of your assets
| | 03:36 | together into a single file. So even if
you don't plan on moving your files to
| | 03:40 | another drive or Mac, it's nice to create an archive so
you just have that single file for your entire DVD project.
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GoodbyeGoodbye| 00:00 | And there you have it. If you've
made it through all the movies, I think
| | 00:03 | you'll agree that iDVD is a
really fantastic program for creating
| | 00:06 | professional-looking DVDs and it's
packed with tons of features for enhancing
| | 00:09 | your projects like being able to create
slideshows and include DVD-ROM content.
| | 00:13 | I hope you can take what you've learned
here and start building some great DVDs
| | 00:17 | of your own that I'm sure your friends
and family are going to love. So, until
| | 00:21 | next we meet, enjoy
working and playing with iDVD.
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