iDVD Getting Started

Get to know the iDVD window and controls, and learn how to create your own DVD.

Contents

Chapter 1
Welcome to iDVD What Youll Learn Before You Begin What You Need The iDVD Interface Learn iDVD Step 1: Locate the Movies, Photos, and Audio Files to Use in This Tutorial Step 2: Create a New Project Setting the Encoding Quality Step 3: Choose a Theme for Your DVD Step 4: Add a Movie Editing the Menu Title Step 5: Add a Slideshow Adding a Transition Between Images Adding a Soundtrack Step 6: Add Media to Drop Zones Step 7: Add Menu Text and Change Its Appearance Step 8: Change the Appearance of Buttons Editing Button Text Changing Button Shapes Changing the Button Image Step 9: Add Transitions to Buttons Step 10: Organize Your Project in Map View Changing Map View Layout Adding an Autoplay Movie Step 11: Burn Your DVD Checking the Project Info Window Checking Project Files Checking Your Project for Errors Burning Your Project to DVD Continue to Explore iDVD Getting More Help

Chapter 2

Welcome to iDVD
iDVD gives you the tools to create Hollywood-style DVDs that incorporate your own movies, photos, and music. Sharing your memories has never been easier.
You can play the discs you burn using iDVD in most DVD players, including computers with DVD drives. To learn how to use iDVD and make your first basic DVD using your own movie and photos, follow this easy tutorial.

What Youll Learn

If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, youll build an iDVD project that includes a movie, a main menu, a submenu to let viewers go directly to specific scenes, and a slideshow created from your digital photos. Youll become familiar with how iMovie and iDVD work together, and youll also learn to do the following: Bring media from your other iLife applications into an iDVD project Customize the iDVD menus Make and customize slideshows Use map view for efficient editing Burn a DVD Play a DVD

Before You Begin

To make it easier to complete this tutorial, print this document before you start. In many tasks shown in this tutorial and in iDVD Help, you need to choose menu commands, which look like this: Choose Edit > Copy. The first term after Choose is the name of a menu in the iDVD menu bar. The next term (or terms) are the items you choose from that menu.
You dont have to complete the tutorial in one sitting. You can save your work at any point and return to it later. To save your work, choose File > Save.

What You Need

To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need the following: A movie from iMovie that you have shared (in iMovie, choose Share > Media Browser) so that it is accessible in iDVD. You can use any format from iMovie, including HDV, MPEG-4, iSight, and even 16:9 widescreen movies. Images for a slideshow in your iPhoto library. Audio files in your iTunes library. A computer with a SuperDrive, or a computer with a connected third-party DVD burner. (This is not required if you dont plan to burn your project to a DVD.) If you have video but no photos, or photos but no video, you can still do this tutorial. Your final results will be different, but youll still have a project that you can burn to a disc. Experiment a little and have fun.
Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD

The iDVD Interface

As you go through the tutorial, youll learn about the various controls and menus in iDVD. The main window, shown below, is your console for creating your DVD. From here, you can access almost every feature for creating and editing menus, and adding movies, photos, and music to create a dazzling DVD.
Drop zone Drag video clips, slideshows, or still photos to each drop zone to customize your menu.
Add button Click to add buttons for navigating to contenta movie, submenu, or slideshowyou want to link to from the iDVD menu. Map view, Motion, and Drop Zone buttons Use these buttons to switch to map view, view menu motion, and access the drop zone editor. Burn button Volume slider and Preview button Control the computer volume as you work in iDVD. Click the Preview button to preview your project. Click this button to burn your DVD when your project is done.

Learn iDVD

Get started now creating a dazzling DVD project using your own movies, photos, and music.
When youve finished this tutorial, youll have a complete project, which you can continue to edit on your own or burn to a DVD. And youll have a taste for all the creative things you can do in iDVD to make sharing your movies and photos better than ever.
Step 1: Locate the Movies, Photos, and Audio Files to Use in This Tutorial
Before you start your project, make sure you know which movies, photos, and audio files you want to use in your project and check that theyre in the right format for iDVD. For this tutorial, ideally you should have access to one movie, several photos, and a few audio files. These items are automatically in the proper format for use in iDVD: Movies created in iMovie To use an iMovie movie in iDVD, you must first choose Share > Media Browser in iMovie. Specify which size of movie to share, and then click Publish. Large is the suggested size for use in iDVD. If your camcorder does not shoot high-definition video, however, the large size option may not be available. The shared movie is then automatically available in the Movies pane of iDVD. Important: Video footage must be recorded using 16-bit audio in order to be burned correctly to a disc using iDVD. Check your cameras manual for instructions about setting the audio bit rate and depth. Music files in your iTunes library Photos in your iPhoto library If you have other files whose formats you are unsure about, search for file formats in iDVD Help for more information.
In the Media pane of iDVD, shown below, you can access songs and photos in your iTunes and iPhoto libraries. If you have audio and image files in folders outside of iTunes and iPhoto, you can drag those folders to the list of photos or audio files in the Media pane after you open a project in iDVD.
Click these buttons to access specific media files.
Click the Media button to access your movies, photos, and music.
Movies stored in the Movies folder on your hard disk appear automatically in the Media pane. You can also drag movies from other folders on your hard disk to the movies list. In iDVD preferences, you can specify other folders whose contents you want iDVD to show automatically in the Media pane. Movies stored in these folders are automatically added to the movies list in the Media pane. For instructions about how to do this, search for add media in iDVD Help.

Step 3: Choose a Theme for Your DVD
The overall look of a DVD menu and its buttons is called a theme. The theme is defined by the colors and graphic elements in the menu, the font style and size of text, the menu button shape, and much more. A theme family is a collection of menu designs that work together, providing a unified appearance to submenus. You can use one of the professional-quality themes that come with iDVD. Or, working with one of the iDVD themes as a base, you can customize the theme and save it as a favorite to use for other projects. In this tutorial, youll learn how to start with an existing iDVD theme and customize aspects of it. Note: Use the Soft Frame theme, specified in the steps below, for this tutorial so that you can follow along easily. After you finish the tutorial, you can use what youve learned to choose a different theme and make other changes before you burn your DVD. To choose the theme for your DVD menu: 1 Click the Themes button at the bottom of the iDVD window. The Themes pane opens on the right side of the iDVD window. 2 Scroll up and down to see the themes. 3 Click the pop-up menu and choose 7.0 Themes, and then scroll down until you see Soft Frame. 4 Click the disclosure triangle next to the theme, which reveals all menu templates in the Soft Frame theme family. 5 Click Main to select the theme family for your project. After a short pause, the menu changes to the theme you selected. The title on the menu changes to the name of the theme you selected.
The Soft Frame theme, like many iDVD themes, defaults to the widescreen format (16:9). To switch to standard format (4:3), choose Project > Switch to Standard (4:3).
Choose a set of themes using this pop-up menu. Click the disclosure triangle to see all the menu templates in the theme family.
Note: After you modify a menu, you can save it as a custom theme. A custom theme appears in the Themes pane, listed below Favorites. You can use it for future projects, just as you would any other theme.

Step 4: Add a Movie

After you choose your theme, you can add one or more movies and other content to your iDVD project. In this step, youll add a movie. When you drag a movie to a menu, iDVD automatically adds a button to the menu that users click to play the movie. The buttons label is the name of the movie you added, but you can change this. To add a movie: 1 Click the Media button. 2 Click the Movies button at the top of the Media pane, shown below.

3 Select the Movies folder or another folder that contains movies. Thumbnail pictures of the movies in the folder appear in the lower half of the pane. 4 Drag a movie thumbnail to the menu background on the left side of the iDVD window. You see a green circle with a plus sign when you can drop the movie. In the Soft Frame Main menu, the background where you can drop your movie includes everything but the drop zone and the placeholder title. When you drop the movie, a button appears on the menu that has the same name as the movie you added. Youll learn how to change the button name in Editing Button Text on page 22.
Note: If dotted lines appear on the menu when you drag your movie to it, move the pointer until the dotted lines disappear, and then drop the movie. Dotted lines indicate a drop zone, an area of a menu to which you can add video clips and photos. Video clips added to a drop zone become part of the menu background rather than featured movies on the DVD. If you havent saved changes to your project, you can delete a movie youve added by choosing Edit > Undo Add Movie. If youve already saved your project, click the button that links to the movie you want to remove, and then choose Edit > Cut. Its possible within iDVD to create a scene selection menu, like commercial DVDs have, that allows viewers to access specific scenes in your movie. You must first create chapter markers for your movie, which automatically generates a scene selection menu. To learn more, search for chapter markers in iDVD Help.

Editing the Menu Title

When you create a new project in iDVD, the main menu of your project has a default title that matches the name of the menu theme. Its easy to change the title of your iDVD project. To change the title text: 1 Double-click the title, which highlights the text. An in-place editor, shown below, appears below the title.
2 Type Vacations in its place. 3 If you want, use the controls in the in-place editor to change the typeface, style, and size of the title text. Youll learn more about modifying onscreen text in Step 7: Add Menu Text and Change Its Appearance on page 20.

Step 5: Add a Slideshow

Adding a slideshow to your iDVD project is a great way to enhance your DVD and show your photographs. You can use a slideshow already created in iPhoto, or you can use iDVD to create a slideshow from a group of pictures. You can even create a DVD that has no movies at all but rather showcases your photos in one or more slideshows. Depending on the amount of other content included and the size of your photos, your DVD can hold up to 9801 images. In this step, youll create a slideshow of photographs and movies in iDVD and add a soundtrack. To create a slideshow in iDVD: 1 If the main menu is not showing, click the Back button on the scene selection menu to return to the main menu. 2 Click the Add button at the bottom of the iDVD window and choose Add Slideshow from the pop-up menu. A button labeled My Slideshow appears on the menu. This button may appear too far from the movie button. Leave it as it is for now. Youll learn how to reposition buttons in Changing Button Shapes on page 23.

Click My Slideshow to select the text, and then type My Photos. If you want to modify the text, use the controls in the in-place editor to do so. 3 Click outside the text area to deselect the text, and then double-click the My Photos button to open the slideshow editor. The iDVD window changes automatically to show the Photos pane.
The slideshow editor, shown below, is a blank screen with the words Drag images here.
Access the Photos pane to add photos to your slideshow.
4 Drag photos one at a time or in groups from the Photos pane to the slideshow editor. You can even drag a whole album to the slideshow editor. If you havent imported photos into iPhoto, you wont see photos in this list. You can open iPhoto anytime and import some photos, or you can drag photos from other locations on your hard disk directly to the slideshow editor. 5 Arrange the images in the order in which you want them to appear. Drag the images in the slideshow editor to rearrange them. To delete images, select the ones you want to remove, and then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
Adding a Transition Between Images
iDVD includes a number of transition styles you can apply to your slideshow so that the images flow smoothly from one to the next. To add a transition: 1 Click the Transition pop-up menu and experiment with the transitions in the menu until you find one you want to use. If one of the arrows to the right of the Transition pop-up menu is highlighted when you make a selection, you can choose a direction for the transition. Click any of the arrows to select a direction.
To preview the transition, click the Preview button, shown below. The iDVD remote control appears. It operates just like a standard remote control, and you can use its controls to click buttons and navigate to all the menus in your project.
Click the Transition pop-up menu to choose a transition style.
Click the Preview button to see the various transitions.
2 Click the Settings button and make other creative decisions using the settings in the slideshow editor: To make the slideshow repeat continuously, select Loop slideshow. To show navigation arrows on the slideshow, select Display navigation arrows. These arrows are not functional; they serve as a visual reminder that users can use the controls on their remote controls to progress through the slideshow. To add copies of the original photos to the DVD-ROM portion of the disc, select Add image files to DVD-ROM. This allows viewers to download copies of your photos to their own computers from the DVD. Note: Adding files to the DVD-ROM portion of the disc uses up space that you might need for your project. To monitor the size of your project as you work, choose Project > Project Info. You can see how much space youve used next to DVD Capacity. To show the title and comments text below the images, select Show titles and comments. To add titles and comments, click the text below the image thumbnail in the slideshow editor and type in the text field that appears.

Adding a Soundtrack

You can add interest to your slideshow by adding a soundtrack to it. To add a soundtrack to a slideshow: 1 Click the Audio button at the top of the Media pane. The contents of your iTunes library and any music you composed in GarageBand appear in the audio list. If you dont see any music in the audio list, make sure you have imported music into iTunes. 2 Select a song, and then click the Play button at the bottom of the Media pane to listen to it before you add it to your DVD.
To quickly locate a particular song, you can type its name in the search field.
Access the Audio pane to add a soundtrack to your slideshow.

Audio well

Volume slider

Preview button

3 When you find a song you want to use, drag it from the song list to the audio well in the slideshow editor, shown above. After you drag the song to the audio well, notice that the Slide Duration pop-up menu automatically changes to Fit To Audio. This ensures that your slideshow and music begin and end together. However, using the Slide Duration pop-up menu, you can change how long your slides stay onscreen before the next one appears. The slide duration you specify applies only to photos in a slideshow. The length of time a movie plays is not affected by slide duration. 4 Click the Preview button to see how your slideshow looks. To return to the slideshow editor, click Exit on the remote control. You can continue to make adjustments to the slideshow until its just the way you want it. To adjust soundtrack volume, drag the Slideshow volume slider, shown above, to the right or left. 5 Click the Return button to exit the slideshow editor and return to the main menu. 6 To save your work, choose File > Save.
Step 6: Add Media to Drop Zones
iDVD themes can include no drop zones, multiple drop zones, and even dynamic drop zones that move in the background of a menu. A drop zone isnt a button; its an area where you can place media that adds interest to the menu background. You can place a single image, a slideshow, or a movie in a drop zone. You can add any combination of images, video clips, or slideshows to the drop zones in your project. You can also hide the drop zones on any menu so that they dont appear in your final project. With your pointer over the menu (and with no buttons or text objects selected), press Command (x)-I to open the Menu Info window. Then deselect the Show drop zones and related graphics checkbox. The drop zones on the menu immediately disappear. The Soft Frame Main menu contains three drop zones, which play in sequence on the main menu. Therefore, only one drop zone shows at any time on the main menu. The easiest way to determine how many drop zones a menu has is to click the Drop Zone button. This brings up the drop zone editor, which has a well for each drop zone the menu contains. To return to the main menu, click the Drop Zone button again. In this step, youll fill each of the three drop zones in the main menu using the drop zone editor. Youll add a slideshow to one of the drop zones, which is similar to the process of creating a slideshow described in Step 5: Add a Slideshow on page 14. To add media to drop zones: 1 Click the Drop Zone button. The drop zone editor, shown below, appears.

To customize the text: 1 Make sure that the projects main menu is open, and then choose Project > Add Text. New placeholder text that says Click to edit appears on the menu. 2 Drag the text into position below the title. If you need to reposition the main title to fit the subtitle below it, click the title once to select it, and then drag it to a new location. You can select and drag any text object on the menu to reposition it. 3 Click the placeholder text to highlight it, and then type A Year of Fun as the subtitle. When you click the text, the in-place editor appears below it. You can use the controls to change the typeface, style, and size of the text. For now, however, ignore the inplace editor. 4 With the text highlighted, press Command (x)-I to open the Text Info window, shown below. The Text Info window has controls for changing all aspects of the text, including color and whether the text has a shadow. You can drag it wherever you want on your desktop.
5 Click the typeface pop-up menu and choose another typeface. 6 Use the font size pop-up menu to choose a smaller size so that the subtitle fits below the main title. 7 Click the color control to open the Colors window. Try out different color selections in the Colors window. As you click colors, the text on the menu changes to the color you selected. When you find a color you want to use, close the Colors window. 8 Select the Shadow checkbox to add a shadow to the text. 9 Close the Text Info window. 10 To save your work, choose File > Save.
The menu below shows the new title and subtitle.
Some television screens may not be able to display everything on your menu. You can overlay an outline on the menu so that you can see what will be visible on these TVs. This is called the TV safe area. For more information, search for TV safe area in iDVD Help.
Step 8: Change the Appearance of Buttons
Button styles are designed to fit the theme, but you can change them to suit your content or your own design vision. Buttons can be text only, or they can be different shapes that incorporate text, a still image, a slideshow, or video. The buttons on your main menu, for example, are text-only buttons. In this step, youll edit the button label text, change the shape of the buttons, and choose an image for one of them.

Editing Button Text

Editing button label text is similar to changing onscreen text. To edit button label text: 1 In the main menu, slowly double-click your movie button to highlight the text. Youll notice that an in-place editor, shown below, appears below the text, just like the one that appeared below the DVD title text when you changed it. 2 Type a new name.
3 Use the controls to change the typeface, style, and size of the button label.
4 To change the color of the text, press Command (x)-I while the button is selected. This opens the Button Info window, shown below. It has the same controls as the inplace editor, plus additional ones.
Click the color control to select a new color for the selected text.
5 Click the color control (its default color is white) to open the Colors window, and then try out different color selections in the Colors window. As you click colors, the button label changes to the color you selected. When you find a color you want to use, close the Colors window. To change the appearance of all button labels at once, select one button and then choose Edit > Select All Buttons. Then press Command (x)-I to open the Button Info window. Any selections you make will apply to all button labels. 6 To save your work, choose File > Save.

Changing Button Shapes

You can turn any text button into a shape (or image) button. Image buttons consist of a text label and a shape thumbnail. You can add photos or movie clips to the thumbnail portion of image buttons to add visual interest to your menus. Image buttons on a menu can be all the same shape, or you can mix styles. To change button shapes: 1 From the main menu, select one of the buttons by clicking it once, and then choose Edit > Select All Buttons. If you want each button to be different, you can select buttons and change their styles one at a time.
2 Click Buttons to open the Buttons pane, shown below.
Select a category of button shapes using this pop-up menu.
Click this icon to change a button to text only.
3 From the pop-up menu at the top of the pane, choose Rounded. The three button options at the top of the pop-up menuText, Bullets, and Shapes add a graphical element to your buttons that in most cases appears only when the button is highlighted. The four button options at the bottom of the pop-up menu create buttons that have a label and a shape to which you can add an image or movie clip. 4 Click one of the button shapes. Try different button shapes until you find one that looks good on your menu. The icon (the gray circle with a slash) at the top of the Buttons pane changes all selected buttons to text-only buttons. Most likely, when you apply a shape, the buttons on your menu will overlap. Youll fix that in step 6 below. 5 With your buttons still selected, press Command (x)-I again to open the Button Info window. Use the controls in the Button Info window to make other creative decisions: Use the Thumbnail slider to change the size of the button shape. Use the label pop-up menu to change where the button label appears in relation to its shape.

6 If the buttons are still overlapping, click the menu, but not a drop zone or text object. The Menu Info window, shown below, appears.
7 Select Free positioning in the Buttons section of the window. This allows you to move the buttons around the menu 8 Close the window, and then drag your buttons where you want them on the menu. Yellow alignment guides appear as you drag to help you place your buttons. 9 To save your work, choose File > Save.
Changing the Button Image
Its easy to change the image that appears on any button, giving you more control over how your menus look. To change the image on a slideshow button: 1 Slowly double-click the shape portion of your slideshow button. An Image pane, shown below, appears above the button.
2 Move the slider left or right, which scrolls through the images in your slideshow. Scroll until you see the image you want to appear on the button. 3 Click outside of the button when youre done. The Image slider disappears.
To change the image on a movie button: 1 Slowly double-click the shape portion of your movie button. A Movie pane, shown below, appears above the button.
2 Move the slider to the left or right to select which frame of your movie you want to appear on the button. If you want the buttons to show only the frame you selected instead of moving video, select the Still Image checkbox. Your menu should now look similar to the one shown below.
3 To save your work, choose File > Save.
Step 9: Add Transitions to Buttons
Now your DVD has an attractive menu with customized buttons. You can add more flair by using transitions to smooth the movement from the main menu of your DVD to your movie, your scene selection menu, and your slideshow. To set transitions for the main menu: 1 Click one of the buttons on the main menu to select it, and then choose Edit > Select All Buttons. You can apply a different transition to each button by selecting each button one at a time and then choosing a transition.
2 Press Command (x)-I to open the Button Info window. 3 Choose Push from the Transition pop-up menu, shown below. Youll notice that the second pop-up menu changes to read Right to Left. This indicates that you can set the direction for the transitions movement.
4 Choose a different direction from the second pop-up menu, if you want. 5 Click the Preview button and use the DVD remote control to select the menu buttons one by one to view the results. When youre done, click Exit on the DVD remote control. 6 To save your work, choose File > Save.
Step 10: Organize Your Project in Map View

Step 11: Burn Your DVD

Now that your iDVD project is finished, youre almost ready to take the final step and burn it to a DVD disc. There are still a few steps to take to ensure a good outcome. In this step, youll check the project size in the Project Info window, check for errors using the DVD map, and check the encoding quality and status.
Checking the Project Info Window
DVD projects can take up a lot of space on your hard disk, and its useful to know when you need to make more room. In addition, a DVD disc has a maximum capacity. As youre working on your project, monitoring its size will ensure that everything fits. The Project Info window, shown below, provides all this information and more.
To check the size of your project: m Choose Project > Project Info. The total size of your project, in running time (in minutes) and in size (in megabytes or gigabytes), shows below the Capacity meter on the far right. The Capacity meter shows how much of your projects total size is used by each of its elements. The bands of color indicate what proportion of the project each element accounts for. The numbers below DVD-ROM, Slideshows, Menus, and Movies specify how much space (in gigabytes) each uses. When you click these numbers, the display switches to show the number of these items in your project and how many tracks they use. An iDVD project can have up to 99 tracks.
DVD-ROM refers to the content youve specified to be added to the DVD-ROM portion of your burned DVD. The running time and size figures that appear below Menus reflect the total duration of all the menus in the project. You can have a total of 15 minutes of motion, such as video on buttons or in the background, in all menus. A project can include up to 99 menus. In general, the amount of content your iDVD project contains correlates to the quality of your burned DVD, given the encoding setting you have chosen. The white arrow in the Capacity meter points to the quality of your burned DVD. Quality is highest on the green portion of the Quality meter. If you have chosen Best Performance as your encoding setting, the entire Quality meter may be green.

Checking Project Files

When youre finished with your iDVD project, you can burn it to a DVD for viewing on a TV or on a computer equipped with a DVD-reading drive. Burn a disc only when youre sure that youre finished with your project. You can use the following media types to burn a disc in iDVD: DVD-R: Can be used only once This is the recommended media for iDVD because its compatible with most DVD players and computers. These discs holds about 4.38 GB. DVD+R: Can be used only once These discs hold about 4.38 GB. DVD-RW: Can be used more than once RW stands for rewritable. These discs hold about 4.38 GB. DVD+RW: Can be used more than once These discs hold about 4.38 GB. They may not be viewable in all DVD players. DVD+R DL (Double Layer): These discs store almost twice as much content as single-layer discs, but they cant be viewed in older DVD players. To burn your DVD: m Click the Burn button, shown below. When prompted, insert a blank disc into your computers SuperDrive or an external burner. iDVD burns your disc.
The time it takes to create the disc depends on the amount of video on the disc and the speed of your computer. Depending on the size and complexity of your project, it could take a few hours or up to several hours.
While your iDVD project is burning, a progress dialog shows which of the five burn stages is in process: Prepare, Process Menus, Process Slideshows, Process Movies, and Burn. If you cant burn a disc right away, or if you want to back up or move your project to another computer, you can archive it or save it as a disc image. For more information, search for Archiving a project and Saving a project as a disc image in iDVD Help.

Continue to Explore iDVD

Congratulations, youve completed the tutorial! Now that youre familiar with the basic tools and features of iDVD, you can continue to edit your movie and to create new ones. Here are some other ways to add flair and excitement to all your projects: Add additional movies to your project: Because a DVD can hold a lot of data, you probably have room to include more than one movie. As you add movies, you can add more menus with customized buttons and onscreen text. Customize a theme and save it as a favorite: After you change the button style, the appearance and placement of your onscreen text, and other editable aspects of your theme, you can save it as a custom theme to be used for other projects. To learn more about custom themes, search for themes in iDVD Help. Experiment with sound: You can add background audio to a menu, which can include one or more songs or an iTunes playlist. For more information, search for Adding sound to a menu in iDVD Help. You can make the soundtrack of a slideshow or background movie fade out, to add polish to your DVD. For more information, search for Making a soundtrack fade out in iDVD Help. Add content to the DVD-ROM portion of the disc: You can add content to the DVD-ROM portion of your disc, which users can access when they view your disc from a computer (not a TV). For example, you can add images from the slideshows you create so that viewers can download them to their computers and print them. To learn more, search for DVD-ROM contents in iDVD Help.

Getting More Help

There are several resources you can consult for additional help using iDVD: Onscreen help: iDVD comes with a built-in help system. When iDVD is open, choose Help > iDVD Help. When the help page opens, type a word or phrase into the search field at the top of the page, or click one of the topic areas to get detailed instructions for completing specific tasks. Video tutorials: These short video tutorials demonstrate how to complete common tasks in iDVD. To access them, choose Help > Video Tutorials. (These tutorials are available in some languages only.) iDVD support website (www.apple.com/support/idvd): Look here for helpful community discussion boards, as well as detailed troubleshooting information and software updates.

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Partially supported

The focus in some dialog boxes can be detected.
(f) Textual information shall be provided through operating system functions for displaying text. The minimum information that shall be made available is text content, text input caret location, and text attributes. (g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast and color selections and other individual display attributes. (h) When animation is displayed, the information shall be displayable in at least one nonanimated presentation mode at the option of the user. (i) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. (j) When a product permits a user to adjust color and contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided. (k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text, objects, or other elements having a flash or blink frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. (l) When electronic forms are used, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.

The VoiceOver speak text function works when the mouse is passed over elements in dialog boxes and most elements of the
Some on-screen controls and correctly labeled or adjusted.
The Adjust HUD can be used to adjust color and contrast properties.

See 1194.21(a) and (f)

Subpart C -- Functional Performance Criteria 1194.31 Functional performance criteria.
(a) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired shall be provided. (b) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require visual acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in audio and enlarged print output working together or independently, or support for assistive technology used by people who are visually impaired shall be provided. (c) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user hearing shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided. (d) Where audio information is important for the use of a product, at least one mode of operation and information retrieval shall be provided in an enhanced auditory fashion, or support for assistive hearing devices shall be provided. (e) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user speech shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people with disabilities shall be provided. (f) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided.
iDVD can be successfully operated by users who are visually impaired and rely on a screen magnifier or custom-display alterations.
Visual alerts can be used in place of audible alerts.
iDVD can be used with Sticky Keys to avoid simultaneous actions. Mouse Keys can be used to execute certain fine-motor functions instead of the mouse.
Subpart D -- Information, Documentation, and Support 1194.41 Information, documentation, and support.
(a) Product support documentation provided to end-users shall be made available in alternate formats upon request, at no additional charge. (b) End-users shall have access to a description of the accessibility and compatibility features of products in alternate formats or alternate methods upon request, at no additional charge. (c) Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of end-users with disabilities.
Online documentation can be found at http://www.apple.com/support/idvd/

Information about Apples built-in access technologies is available at http://www.apple.com/accessibility.
E-mail support and discussion groups are available at http://www.apple.com/support/idvd
Apple does not promise that the information provided in this document will be error-free, or that any errors will be corrected, or that your use of the information will provide specific results. THE DOCUMENT AND ITS CONTENT ARE DELIVERED ON AN AS-IS BASIS. ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. APPLE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF ACCURACY, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.