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How to burn clips projects DVD’s using iDVD in G333 Creating a Magic iDVD
1. Open the iDVD software (It is located at: Applications → iDVD). It may take up to 30 seconds to load; give it time.
2. Regardless of which window appears (it may open a previous project), go to the top of your screen and select File → Magic iDVD
3. Give your DVD a title at the top of the next window. ✎ This window can be resized. Click and drag the bottom-right corner to enlarge the
window; making it easier to see which videos/images you will be adding. 4. Select “Old Themes” from the drop-down menu in the “Choose a Theme” section. 5. In the themes section, scroll to the right and select one of the plain, simple themes.
✎ Graphite, Sage, Brushed Metal, Lavender, Leather, and Burlap work best. 6. Adding videos
a. In Finder, open the folder that has the videos you would like to burn to DVD. b. Highlight all of the videos you would like to include.
✎ You can do this by selecting the first video, holding shift, and clicking the last video.
✎ You can also hold the command ⌘ key while clicking each video. c. Click and drag those videos to the “Drop Movies Here” area in the iDVD window.
✎ All of your videos should now appear as thumbnails in iDVD. 7. Adding images
a. In Finder, open the folder that has the still images you would like to use. b. The images must be added one-‐by-‐one.
i. Click and drag each individual image (one-‐by-‐one) to the “Drop Photos Here” area in the iDVD window.
✎ Be sure not to drop an image on top of another image in iDVD ✎ Each caption under the photo thumbnails should say “1 Slide.”
8. Your final Magic iDVD window should look something like this:
9. Click the “Create Project” button on the bottom-‐right. ↑ 10. Save your work by clicking File → Save As…
a. Save the file to: DIGITIZE → DVDs → Video Title
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Editing your Magic iDVD 1. By default, your Magic iDVD will already have the movie title and links to your
“Movies” and “Slideshows” on the main menu. 2. If necessary, modify the movie title by selecting it and clicking on it a second time.
✎ Sometimes the movie titles are too long and run off/get too close to the edge of the screen. Make the font smaller or modify the text into two rows to fix this.
✎ You can also move the title lower on the screen by clicking and dragging it. 3. Modify the “Movies” text to say “Clips” instead. 4. Modify the “Slideshows” text to say “Stills” instead. 5. Your final main menu should look something like this:
6. Save your work by clicking File → Save. 7. Edit the Stills menus
a. Double click on the Stills thumbnail to open the first Stills menu. ✎ All of the text on the Stills menus must be edited.
b. By default, all of the slideshows will be named “My Slideshow.” Each one needs to be renamed to the actual slide name.
i. In Finder, open the folder that has the still images. Click on the first image’s filename to select it, and click on it a 2nd time to rename. Instead of renaming, copy the filename by clicking Edit → Copy or by holding command ⌘ and pressing the letter c.
ii. Go back to iDVD. Click on the first thumbnail’s text to select it, and click on it a 2nd time to rename. Paste the filename you just copied by clicking Edit → Paste or by holding command ⌘ and pressing the letter v.
iii. Follow the previous 2 steps over and over for each thumbnail. The text under each thumbnail should correspond with the name of the image.
c. It should now look something like this:
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d. Some of the text may overlap. i. To fix this, highlight all of the thumbnails/text by clicking (on the
background) and dragging your mouse to draw a box over them. ii. At the top of your screen, click View → Show Inspector. iii. Make the font smaller by clicking the size from that new window and
selecting a smaller one. ✎ If the text looks too small, try making it bold.
iv. You can also modify the individual thumbnail text by selecting it and making it two rows instead of one.
e. It should now look something like this:
f. By default, all of the slideshows are set up to auto-advance after 3 seconds. We need
the images to stay on the screen until we manually change them. Do the following to each thumbnail:
i. Double click on the thumbnail. ii. Under “Slide Duration” on the bottom-‐left, change it from “3 seconds” to
“Manual.” iii. Click the “Return” button
g. Once those are done, the last thing to do is rename the title for this menu. Change “Slideshows 1-‐6” to “Stills 1-‐6”
h. Your final Stills menu should look something like this:
i. Click on the right arrow in the bottom-‐right of the Stills menu to move to the 2nd
slideshow menu. j. Repeat steps b-‐i on each Stills menu until every page has been modified. k. Save your work after completing each page.
8. Edit the Clips menu a. Go back to the main DVD menu and double click on the Clips thumbnail
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b. Unlike the Stills menus, the Clips menus are auto-‐populated with the clip names. Like the Stills menu though, some of the text may overlap.
i. To fix this, highlight all of the thumbnails/text by clicking (on the background) and dragging your mouse to draw a box over them.
ii. At the top of your screen, click View → Show Inspector. iii. Make the font smaller by clicking the size from that new window and
selecting a smaller one. ✎ If the text looks too small, try making it bold.
iv. You can also modify the individual thumbnail text by selecting it and making it two rows instead of one.
c. Rename the title for this menu. Change “Movies 1-6” to “Clips 1-6” d. Your final Clips menu should look something like this:
e. Click on the right arrow at the bottom-‐right of the Clips menu to move to the 2nd
movies menu. f. Repeat steps b-‐e on each Clips menu until every page has been modified. g. Save your work after completing each page.
9. Preview the DVD a. Once all of the menus have been edited and everything looks good, you will
want to preview the DVD before burning. Click the button to do so. i. This preview will run exactly like the final DVD will. If you see an error, this will allow you to go back and make changes before burning the DVD.
ii. When you are done previewing, press the “exit” button on the on-‐screen remote.
10. Burn the DVD a. When everything is finished, put a blank DVD-‐R into the iMac (right side). b. Wait for the Finder window to appear. When it does, click OK.
c. In iDVD, click the button to burn the DVD.