Once you have all your content in place, iDVD lets you customize your menu screens. I saved and quit the working iMovie document, when I reopened it it seemed as though some of the images got really lo-res. Most of the images in the film were still jpegs images created in PhotoShop, or brought in from iPhoto.

The slideshow editor includes tools for setting the slide duration, assigning transitions, and adding a soundtrack using songs from your iTunes library. I just created a dvd using iMovie and iDVD. We suggest you to select a lossless video format, such as AVI, as the output format. For iMovie 11 or earlier, you need to click Share -> Export File. if it's longer than 60 minutes, use the 'Professional Quality' setting. After editing the video project in iMovie, go to Share -> File to export iMovie to video file for burning to DVD. And for iDVD if your video is < 60 minutes, use the 'Best performance' project setting. Then use the iDVD slideshow editor to rearrange photos, delete slides, or add more images from iPhoto. If you want to use iMovie 08 or 09 for its features after, you capture with iMovie HD you can export the raw footage to the Apple Intermediate codec and import it into 08/09. Choose an iDVD theme and add photos one at a time or select albums, custom iPhoto books, slideshows - maybe even a video clip or two - from the iLife Media Browser. You can also use iDVD to show off your photos. iDVD will automatically load your videos from iMovie and you can. Step 2 Burn iMovie videos to DVD with iDVD. Click it and the iMovie will export the movies to iDVD automatically. For each chapter marker on the timeline, iMovie adds a thumbnail of the scene and an editable chapter title (such as “Blowing out the Candles” or “You May Kiss the Bride”).Įdit the chapter title in iMovie and you’ll have less work to do later, as iDVD picks up the chapter titles for its scene selection buttons. After you have finished all the editing work with iMovie, you can click Share button on the menu bar. iDVD automatically imports iMovie chapter markers and uses them to create your scene selections. Make a scene.Ĭhoose an iMovie project as your next iDVD project and you can add a scene selection menu. If you’re more the hands-on type, iDVD gives you lots of options for further customizing your DVD.

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