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#1. In iMovie, you can see the amount of free space on your hard drive. In this example, free space is 9.38 GB. This is plenty for making a 1 GB DVD. |
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#2. When you have finished making your movie in iMovie, you need to export ready for iDVD. In the File menu, choose Share which is the new word for Export. |
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#3. In the Share menu, choose QuickTime and make sure Compress movie shows Full Quality. |
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#4. Compressing your movie will take at least as long as the real time for your movie. Make sure your QuickTime movie saves to your Movies folder because that's where iDVD will look for it first. |
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#5. In the example on the left, you can see the QuickTime icon for the movie taliasieanejasmine.dv and on the right is the icon for the iMovie version of the same movie. |
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#6. Open iDVD and then the Preferences. |
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#7. Make sure in Australia that the video standard slected is PAL. If your movie is less than 60 minutes, you can choose Best Performance and Enable background encoding. This will speed up the DVD burning process. If your movie is between 60 and 90 minutes maximum, then you have no choice but to choose Best Quality. |
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#8. In the Advanced menu, choose TV Safe Area so that, when people watch your DVD on an ordinary TV, they will be able to see everything, especially the buttons to your movies. |
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#9. Click on the Customize button to open the design palette to the left of the main iDVD window. |
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#10. Click on Media and you should see thumbnails of the movies in your Movies folder. |
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#11. Select your movie. In this example, it's called taliasieanejasmine.dv |
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#12. Drag your movie onto the main window near the bottom and avoiding any Drop Zones. The automatic formatting will place the movie title. |
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#13. You need to rename your movie from the file name e.g., taliasieanejasmine.dv |
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#14. Select the file name until it is highlighted then type a name which will be helpful for your viewers. |
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#15. You can also drag your movie into a Drop Zone which means it will play as soon as the movie opens in the DVD player for a short time - maybe the first 20 seconds. |
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#16. Save your iDVD project in case something goes wrong in the next stages which are hard work for your computer. |
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#17. In the File menu, choose Save As Disc Image. This could take a long time so make sure your screen and hard drive do not go to sleep. The advantage of Save As Disc Image is that you will get a copy on your desktop which you can test. If there are any errors, you can fix them without wasting a DVD. |
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#18. Do NOT Quit iDVD at this stage. When the Disc Image is finished, it will have the suffix .img - see example on left. |
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#19. When you open the Disc Image, a folder will appear on the Desktop - see example MICHAEL_COWLING |
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#20. When you open this folder, you should see two folders - AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS. |
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#21. In the Applications folder, open DVD Player and your Disc Image version of your DVD should play. |
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#22. Whe you have checked your DVD and are ready to burn your DVD, you have several choices. If you decide to burn in iDVD, then return to iDVD which should still be open. Make sure the Motion button is Green which means it is ON. This is important for a successful burning. |
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#22. To burn in iDVD, you can open the File menu and choose Burn DVD or click on the DVD icon on the bottom right. Make sure you use DVD-R format because it's a common format. Until recently, it was the only format accepted by internal Apple burners. Burning usually takes a long time e.g., 3 times the running time of your movies. |
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#23. Or you can choose Toast, another DVD burning application. It has the advantage of more burning options especially if you have an external burner. |
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#24. Open Toast and make sure you choose Data in the Advanced menu and then the DVD-ROM (UDF) option. |
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#25. Drag the AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS folders (in #20) into the centre window in Toast so that it looks like the example on the left. You can rename your DVD by selecting My Disc and typing in your choice. |
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#27. Finally, click the red burn button and your DVD should burn a bit faster than in iDVD. |