Week 2A

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Week 2A

• iDVD Basics

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Choosing a DVD Theme

• What is a theme?
• Background image
• Button style
• Fonts, sizes, locations for menu titles and
  button labels
• IDVD comes with standard styles
• Click the Theme button

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Adjusting your Theme

• New background
• Menu - File, Import, Image
• Title settings
• Position, font, color, size
• Button settings
• Type, position, text, color, and size

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Getting your stuff together

• Assemble your images and movies
• Export your movies from iMovie
• True NTSC quality
• This will give you true television quality vide
• Files will be large - very large

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Adding movies to IDVD

• Drag the movie right on the stage
• Have the media folder open and handy
• Add though the menu
• File, Import, Video
• The name of the file will be the name that goes
  on your stage
• Select the name and change it if you like

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Adding movies to IDVD
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Changing Title and Button Text

• To change the text of a menu title or a button
  label, click on the text to select it, then type
  the new text
• Click twice slowly
• Edit box turns light blue

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Changing Button Style

• You can change the movie button from text to an
  actual clip of the movie
• Need to select free position otherwise they will
  likely overlap each other

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Changing Button Style

• You can change the movie button from text to a
  clip of the movie in various button shapes
• Choose text position or no text, color, and size

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Creating a Slideshow

• Useful for
• Examples of audio work
• Printed material like scripts, papers, resume,
  rundowns, etc.
• Image cannot be a document or even RTF
• Image(s) are JPGs or TIFFs
• Landscape aspect ratio is best
• 720 X 480 pixels is the optimum size.
• MS PowerPoint works well for this

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Creating a Slideshow

• Click Slideshow to create a new button
• Click twice slowly to give the button a name
• Double-click quickly to open the slideshow window

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Creating a Picture Slideshow

• Drag pictures into slideshow folder
• or Menu - File, Import image
• You can select more than one at a time with the
  command key

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Creating a Picture Slideshow

• Display arrows box
• For manual navigation
• You can time automatically
• Add original photos on DVD-ROM
• Allows user to copy images to their computer

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Slideshow Properties

• Duration
• How long the slide stays up before it changes to
  the next slide in the slideshow
• Manual
• User steps through them with their DVD player
  remote with arrow button
• Timed
• 10, 5, 3, 1 second

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Slideshow Properties

• Display on Image
• Places left and right arrows on the slide
• The buttons themselves are not click-able
• Only on the DVD player remote

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Slideshow as Resume

• Your paper resume will likely be portrait aspect
  and need to be put in pieces into PowerPoint as
  more than one slide
• You can put all the slides into one slideshow or
  make separate slideshows for each aspect of your
  resume
• Education, Experience, Skills, Reference, etc.

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Slideshow for your Audio Example

• One slideshow for each audio example
• Load in an image that represents the audio for
  the slide
• You can make this in PowerPoint or PhotoShop
• Load the audio for the slideshow
• Menu - File, Import, Audio

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Slideshow for Audio Example
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Making Menus

• When would you need an additional menu?
• When you need more than six buttons on a screen
  at a time
• Each menu can hold up to six buttons
• If you need more then make more menus
• Most buttons on your opening page will be a menu
  button
• Video, audio, resume, etc. so user can go to that
  section

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Making an Additional Menu

• Click on the folder icon
• Double-click to open it
• Then add what you need
• You get a return arrow to get you back to the
  previous menu

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Monitoring Project Size

• IDVD keeps track of the amount of space your
  project will take up on the DVD disk
• On a 2.0 General DVD-R disk, you can store up to
  1 hour of video at 720X480 resolution

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Previewing your DVD

• You can preview your IDVD project at any time by
  clicking on the the preview button
• Use the remote to control your movie
• Motion
• If the page has animation you can see how it looks

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Writing to your DVD Disk

• Are you really ready?
• Once you write to a DVD-R disk, it cannot be
  overwritten
• If you change anything in your IDVD project, you
  have to write it to a new, blank DVD-R disk
• Click the Burn DVD button twice
• Insert a blank disk into the drive
• After the 1st disk is created, you can create
  additional copies

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Writing to your DVD Disk

• What type of DVD-R disks can the Mac burn?
• 2.0 General DVD-R disks

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Testing a DVD Disk You Made

• Test in your computer using the Apple DVD Player
• If the DVD disk plays in your computer, it has
  been created correctly and will work in most
  newer consumer DVD players and computers with a
  DVD drive
• Some older DVD players and some of the first
  computers that came with DVD drives may have
  problems playing your disk.

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Managing your files

• Each DVD project will take up considerable disk
  space
• At the end of each semester the hard drives are
  cleaned to prepare them for next semester
• What you should do
• Save your IDVD project and all media files to
  disk
• If your portfolio is ready for BC 497 and
  employers make several copies

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