18. Making Your Own DVDs

Making your own DVDs like the professionals with iDVD is the topic of this chapter.

iDVD is the application that burns your home movies to DVD with stunning-looking menu layouts that may rival or exceed what you see on commercially produced DVDs. I’ve rented some movies that had terrible menus, and I knew I could have done a better job with iDVD!

In addition to movies, iDVD also can burn DVDs that contain slideshows with background music, as well as a special DVD ROM section with the actual movie and photo files that a computer user could copy.

Getting Started

In iDVD you work on a project. You save the project just as you would save a word processing document, but the project file itself is not the real product of ...

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