Idvd main menu

I have iDVD in my dock, but when I click on it, all I get is the Revolution Main screen. Help! Also, how do I cancel a movie before finishing?

Welcome to the forums.
iDVD is capable of doing some amazing things, but it will take a bit of effort to figure out the process. I bought a couple books when I first started out and that worked for me (David Pogue's "Missing Manual" series was very helpful). Apple also has some good tutorials to get you started:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/idvd.html
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html
John

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    Message was edited by: SDMacuser

  • IDVD Main Menu Play All Button?

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  • Idvd main menu won't open

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    if somehow iDVD is installed on your Mac, you should find it in your Apps-folder
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  • Sharing A Solution - CREATING A SET OF SUB MENUS ON MAIN MENU IN iDVD

    A recent question I posted got some attention from a number of people about how to create a set of sub menus on the main menu of an iDVD project. Evidently there are a number of us who tried to find a way to do this. I attended an Apple Store iDVD workshop and was fortunate enough to be the only one in attendance. So I had the Mac Genius’s attention for a full hour and he was very helpful. Here’s how to do this in detail. Good luck!
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    (REPEAT FROM HERE) Go to the last group of sub menus and select the scenes for the first group of sub menus. In other words go down to the last grouping of sub menus, locate the first sub menu group and choose each scene within the group and delete each one. This will leave you with an empty sub menu. Do this for the next group and any subsequent group up to the last one. Do not delete the last group! This is the group you want at this level.
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  • How do you return to main menu at end of movie in iDVD 11?

    I have created a movie in iMovie '11 with chapter markers, and imported it into iDVD 7.1.2 (1158) on an iMac
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    In God's Harmony

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    It's possible.  My "project" which included pictures as well as movies was all done in iPhoto as a slide show.  From there I exported the slideshow into iDVD.
    I sort of messed up "I think."  I believe I did the original burn incorrectly-tester #1.  I re-burned another one this afternoon which turned out very well-tester #2.  Think I will stick with the options I used for tester #2 since it was the easiest.
    For "chapters" I will need to do some extensive "how to" reading especially when it comes to iMove.  I used iPhoto since it accepts both photos & movies.  I "think" iMovie only deals with movies?
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  • IDVD burned disk does not start at main menu

    The IDVD burned disk starts randomly in the middle of the disk. Cannot access the main menu. I started with an IMovie with chapter headings, videos and pictures. Then shared it with IDVD, created themes, music, changed the headers, etc. Burned the disk using the File Burn DVD command. The disk takes over 1 1/2 hours (IMovie orginal is 15 minutes) to burn.

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    Welcome to the discussions.
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    You should first try deleting iDVD's preference file. You can find this by closing iDVD, going to your Home file (YourUserName)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
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    Reopen iDVD.
    Try creating the disk image file again or burning a disk again.
    If that results in the same problem, create a new iDVD project. Then, drag in the iMovie project from the Media/Movies pane in iDVD instead of sharing it from iDVD.
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  • Make iDVD Selection Menu into Main Menu

    Please excuse me if this is a simple-minded question, but I have not found a solution yet.
    I have a .mov file that I want to burn to DVD. It has 4 chapters - okay, okay, so they're cartoons; who doesn't want some favorite cartoons around? Anyway, the start of each cartoon in the .mov file is marked with a Chapter Marker (created via FCE.) When the .mov file is imported into iDVD 5.0.1, iDVD IMMEDIATELY creates a Main Menu page containing "Play / Submenu" and the Submenu screen containing the 4 cartoons. (And yes, they're Roadrunner vs. Wile E. Coyote, so there!)
    What I want to do is ELIMINATE the current "Main" Menu page, and instead have the "Submenu" containing the links to the 4 cartoons BE the actual "Main Menu." Thus when the DVD is inserted into a player, the "Main Menu" shows the names of the 4 cartoons.
    In the "structure" representation, I have tried dragging the Submenu icon over the Main menu icon; deleting the "Main Menu" icon"; dragging the first cartoon icon over the Main Menu. Nothing works.
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    A million thanks for your solution.
    And for others who have lots of VHS tapes that are slowly turning into Packing Material, here is a strategy:
    Easy-VHS-To-DVD -> Basic Toast (included with EV2D) -> Disc Image -> MPEGStreamclip(Open_DVD:TSVideo) -> Quicktime file (will avoid rendering in FCE) -> iMovie or FCE -> iDVD.
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    And as noted above: Please do not break copyright by making copies of VHS tapes that you do not own. But if you BOUGHT 'Em, you OWN 'Em.

  • Why does my iDVD project skip the main menu screen when starting?

    I just finished a movie in iMovie 09, chose iDVD from the iMovie menu, chose a theme, etc., all was fine, burned the DVD and it works great except it starts the movie instantly rather than showing the opening screen with the main menu.

    When you export to iDVD from iMovie 09, iMovie usually creates an iDVD project in which your movie plays automatically before the main menu is shown. As SDUser has said, you can get rid of that behaviour by going into the DVD map and dragging out the very first item.
    A hint: if you have chapter markers in your movie, and you are using a theme that has motion menus, open up the Inspector (the little i button bottom left in iDVD) and while you are in the Map view click on each menu. Take a look at the length of the menu loop. There is a bug in iDVD that often causes it to make ridiculously long menu loops (in one case 3 hours, even though the menu music clip was 30 seconds and the whole movie was under an hour). That will cause iDVD to take forever rendering your project, and will waste a lot of DVD space that you are need for your main movie. Just drag the slider back to a sensible menu loop length. But go back and check before you burn; as soon as you edit anything else in the menu (for example change the music background) the loop length will have to be fixed again.

  • In iDVD how to unmute main menu sound

    I am using iDVD 7.0.4 on OS 10.5.8. I cannot get music to play on the main menu. I have tried clicking on the music icon in the Inspector window, but the speaker "lines" don't appear and the music doesn't play. My other menus play music just fine and, by the way, when I click on their speaker icons in the Inspector window for the other menus, they also don't show "lines" but the music plays. I am sure the sound file will play in iDVD, because I used it in another menu without problems.
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    Xottle

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    OT

  • IDVD 7.1.2: I am making music instrument instructional DVDs, and I want to include several audio loops in that the viewer access from the main menu to play along with

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    OT

  • When I play a movie in iDVD, how can I pause to return to main menu?

    When I play a Quicktime movie in iDVD, is it possible to have a progress slider and have controls with play, pause, forward or rewind while playing? Right now, what it does is the movie plays entirely and returns to main menu after playing.
    Also, how can I return to main menu even if the video hasn't entirely played?
    Thanx in advance!
    Serge

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    No, not in iDVD - Have you tried the controls on your DVD player remote - that's what I do.
    Also, how can I return to main menu even if the video hasn't entirely played?
    I just hit the 'Menu' button on my DVD player remote.

  • For Making iDVDs: How to do I set my videos so they automatically transition to the next video instead of going back to the main menu every time?

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    OT

  • Images pixelated in iDVD main screen

    hi all,
    i create an annual dvd with slideshows and videos. this is my 8th one and i've never had this problem before!
    i'm using the idvd them "portfolio". when i first started populated the drop zones, everything was fine. the photos i'm using are hi-res and looked great. a few hours into making the video and SOME photos in the drops zones are all blurry and pixelated. i try dropping the photos in again, quitting, restarting, all that good stuff. nothing helped. i then re-exported the photos and put them in a different folder and dropped them into the drop zones. that worked and the photos were back to normal. until i left the main menu screen and some photos became pixelated again. what gives?! it's driving me crazy. i had it perfect and then as soon as i went to burn the dvd, the photos looked bad again.
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    It could just be the screen rendering of the images.  Make a disk image of the project and play it with DVD Player.  Check the images again and see if they are clear or blurred.
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    Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality.  Always use top quality media:  Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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