Help-Autostart DVD

Hi Forum
What I would like to do is create a dvd that starts playing when it is loaded into the dvd player without menus, is is just a 60min clip of a music concert.
Is there any way of just importing the imovie clip into idvd and burning it with out the menus.
I did come accross a workaround by using a 720x540 black background? The question is why. Why not just have the video/audio as a single element on the disk? Why the need for menu's?
Thanks
Justin Howard
South Africa

How to create a DVD without menu (there are several options):
1. Easy: Drop your iMovie in the autoplay box in iDVD's Map View, then set your autoplay item (your movie) to loop continously. Disadvantage: The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy: If you don't want your (autoplay) movie to loop, you can create a black theme"by replacing the background of a static theme with a black background and no content in the dropzone (text needs to be black as well). Disadvantage: The menu is still there and will play after the movie. You don't see it, but your disc keeps spinning in the player.
3. Still quite easy but takes more time: Export the iMovie to DV tape, and then re-import using One-Step DVD.
Disadvantage: One-Step DVD creation has been known to be not 100% reliable.
3. Easy enough but needs 3rd party software: Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just un-check the appropriate check box. Disadvantage: you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software.
Why the need for menu's?
Have you ever seen a commercial DVD that didn't have menus?

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