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CreaƟ ng a DVD using iDVD on a Mac

PLEASE NOTE: The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) provides this

tutorial as a courtesy to its par cipants. TAMI cannot oﬀ er support for DVD

crea on beyond this simple tutorial. We urge anyone who, a er using this

tutorial, s ll has problems to contact family members, friends, or manufacturers

(computers or so ware) for further help.

What you will need:

A copy of iDVD installed on your computer. This is free so ware that comes

with most Apple computers as a part of the iLife suite. To see if you have this

program installed on your computer, look through the “Applica ons” folder

A DVD drive. The vast majority of modern desktop and laptop computers come

with a drive capable of DVD burning already installed. If you do not have one,

you can either purchase one to install into your computer, or get one that

Blank DVDs. How many you will need depends on how much video you have.

There are many brands of blank DVDs you can buy and you can read reviews

of which are the best. Addi onally, there are single and dual layer DVDs. The

of your computer. You should see the program listed somewhere there. If you cannot ﬁ nd it,

you can do a search in that same “Finder” window. Some of the newer Mac computers do not

have iDVD installed – contact Apple if you do not have this so ware.

installs externally via a USB cable. Note that there are some reports of iDVD not recognizing

external burners. Be sure to talk to Apple or do thorough research before buying an external

DVD burner.

diﬀ erence between these is how much video they can hold: The dual layer DVDs hold twice

as much video, but they are considerably more expensive. At TAMI we use single layer DVD-R

disks and have not had reports of problems with them out of the thousands we have made.

You should also be sure to buy blank DVDs that are compa ble with your DVD burner. The

types of DVDs that are compa ble with your burner should be listed in the manual that comes

with it, or on the front panel of the drive itself.

The following steps are to help you build your own DVD with menus using iDVD so ware.

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Summary of Contents

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CreaƟ ng a DVD using iDVD on a MacPLEASE NOTE: The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) provides this tutorial as a courtesy to its par cipants.

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Step 1: Connect your external hard drive to the computerOnce your drive has connected to your computer, it should show up on the desktop. Double click

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Step 3: Add videos to the DVDThere are a number of ways you can set up your DVD (e.g. with extra menus). This tutorial is meant to be as simple as pos

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Step 4: Keep an eye on how full your DVD is geƫ ngTo check on how full the disk is ge ng, select “Project” and then ”Project Info…”The Project Info

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Setp 5: Adding a second menu pageiDVD limits the number of menu bu ons per page to 10. If you can ﬁ t more than 10 videos on a disk, then you will ne

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If you wish to add content to the Drop Zone, here is how: Select the image or video you wish to place in the Drop Zone, and drag it over to the Drop Z