Friday, November 21, 2008

Burning a DVD

I used iDVD on my Macbook Air with an attachable DVD burner (Mac) to complete this assignment. iDVD allows you to burn the movies to a dvd, create a menu using various themes and even add music to the Menu page. You can also add chapter pages as well.

The program is good but a little buggy. I tried to add a PowerPoint to the disk and it froze instead of telling me that I couldn't do it. Additionally, I had trouble understanding the button creation. I'm going to explore this further.

Steps I took:

1. Opened iDVD.
2. Saved project as Guthrie Digital Story - 2008
3. I chose a theme - Stretch Man.
4. I selected project tree.
5. I dragged each movie into the tree. (imports movies into project)
6. Select Return
7. I selected drop zones. (imports stills into interactive menu)
8. I selected buttons to show on the menu.
9. I selected Media.
10. I dragged music from iTunes into my menu.
11. I clicked on Burn to Dvd.

All-in-all it's a pretty easier software just a little buggy.

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