Preview the created disc before making a DVD on Macįree Download How to Create a DVD on Mac with iDVD?Īlthough Apple no longer supplies iDVD with the new Mac version, you still can go to buy the copy of the iLife that is in the sale on Amazon ($40) or eBay ($10).Change background image/audio, title thumbnail, etc.Personalize DVD settings with Aspect Ratio, TV Standard, or others.Edit videos by cropping, rotating, adding effects/watermarks/subtitles.Create interactive menus with plenty of free and stylish templates.Make a DVD disc, DVD folder, and ISO image.Burn downloaded movies from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc.

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Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.Use the simple yet robust DVD creator for Mac- Cisdem DVD Burner to: Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good. To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process. Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. Open iDVD, select a theme and drag the exported QT movie file into the open iDVD window being careful to avoid any drop zones.įollow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD: You then can upgrade from iDVD 7.0.3 to iDVD 7.1.2 via the updaters at the Apple Downloads webpage.Įxport the slideshow out of iPhoto as a QT movie file via the Export button in the lower toolbar. This shows the iDVD contents in the iLife 09 disc via Pacifist:

The Software Update no longer installs the earlier themes when starting from the iLIfe 11 disk nor do any of the iDVD 7 updaters available from the Apple Downloads website contain them.Ĭurrently the only sure fire way to get all themes is to start with the iLife 09 disc:

If you have to purchase an iLife disc in order to obtain the iDVD application remember that the iLife 11 disc only provides themes from iDVD 5-7. Why, because iDVD (and iWeb) was discontinued by Apple over a year ago. If iDVD was not preinstalled on your Mac you'll have to obtain it by purchasing a copy of the iLife 09 disk from a 3rd party retailier like : ilife 09: Softwareor. Then you have to install the themes from an iLife 09 disk.

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