IDVD Submenu Colours

Hi guys, i'm making a dvd in idvd and i've just clicked on add submenu and typed text and used a shape that's basically a rectangle. All that i see on the screen is the text but when i play the dvd to test it all i get is an orange rectangle blocking the text out. Can you guys help?

If so, how would I do that?
From the File menu in iDvd .... like this:
By sdmacuser at 2007-11-06
Thereafter you'd use Apple's DVD Player app to test for proper playback like this:
By sdmacuser at 2007-03-17

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/* SpryMenuBasic.css - version 0.5 - Spry Pre-Release 1.7 */
/* Copyright (c) 2010. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the css for a basic Spry 2 MenuBar.
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display:block;
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padding:0;
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top:100%;
left:0px;
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top:0px;
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display:block;
position:absolute;
top:0px;
left:100%;
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display:block;
text-decoration:none;
.MenuBar .MenuItemLabel {
display:block;
.MenuBar .MenuItemContainer {
position:relative;
white-space:nowrap;
float:left; /* overridden by .MenuBarVertical version of this rule */
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0;
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background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
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background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuDown.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBarVertical .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
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background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover.MenuItemWithSubMenu .MenuItemLabel{
background-image:url("images/ArrowMenuRight.gif");
background-position:right center;
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/* SpryMenuBasicSkin.css - version 0.5 - Spry Pre-Release 1.7 */
/* Copyright (c) 2010. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the skinning css for a basic Spry 2 MenuBar.
* You can use this CSS as a starting point for skinning an instance of the SpryMenuBar widget */
/* The rules in this file assume the following widget classes for menu layout:
MenuBar - Applies to all menubars - default is horizontal bar, all submenus are vertical. 2nd level subs
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MenuBarVertical - vertical main bar; all submenus are pull-right.
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space-delimited. For example: WidgetClass: "MenuBar MenuBarVertical".
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MenuBarLeftShrink - The menu bar will be horizontally 'shrinkwrapped' to be just large enough to hold its items, and left aligned
MenuBarRightShrink - Just like MenuBarLeftShrink, but right aligned
MenuBarFixedLeft - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedLeft', and left aligned.
MenuBarFixedCentered - - Fixed at a specified width set in the rule '.MenuBarFixedCentered',
and centered in its parent container.
MenuBarFullwidth - Grows to fill its parent container width.
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font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
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font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
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width: 80em;
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margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
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clear:both;
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Setting this to 0 avoids "dead spots" for hovering. */
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background-color:#cccccc;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #ffffff #cccccc #ffffff;
border-style: none solid none solid;
.MenuBar .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: none none none none;
.MenuBar .MenuItemLast {
border-style: none solid none none;
.MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:center;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#333333;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 39px;
width: 6em;
width:auto;
background: #cccccc;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
width:1em; /* Equivalent to min-width in modern browsers */
/* First level submenu items */
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
background-color:#ffffff;
padding:0px 2px 0px 0px;
border-width:1px;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
/* Border styles are overriden by first and last items */
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemFirst .MenuItemLabel{
padding-top: 6px;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast {
border-style: solid solid solid solid;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemLast .MenuItemLabel{
padding-bottom: 6px;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItem .MenuItemLabel{
text-align:left;
line-height:1em;
background-color:#ffffff;
color:#333333;
padding: 6px 12px 6px 5px;
width: 7em;
/* Hover states for containers, items and labels */
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #999999;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
.MenuBar .MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.MenuBar .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #999999;
color: #000000;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover {
background-color: #cccccc;
border-color: #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc #cccccc;
.MenuBar .SubMenu .MenuItemHover .MenuItemLabel{
background-color: #cccccc;
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/* Submenu properties -- First level of submenus */
.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #ffffff;
min-width:0%; This keeps the menu from being skinnier than the parent MenuItemContainer - nice to have but not available on ie6 */
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
.MenuBar.MenuBar .SubMenuVisible {/* For Horizontal menubar only */
top: 100%; /* 100% is at the bottom of parent menuItemContainer */
left:0px; /* 'left' may need tuning depending upon borders or padding applied to menubar MenuItemContainer or MenuItem,
and your personal taste.
0px will left align the dropdown with the content area of the MenuItemContainer. Assuming you keep the margins 0
on MenuItemContainer and MenuItem on the parent
menubar, making this equal the sum of the MenuItemContainer & MenuItem padding-left will align
the dropdown with the left of the menu item label.*/
z-index:10;
.MenuBar.MenuBarVertical .SubMenuVisible {
top: 0px;
left:100%;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse */
/* Submenu properties -- Second level submenu and beyond - these are visible descendents of .MenuLevel1 */
.MenuBar .MenuLevel1 .SubMenuVisible {
background-color: #ffffff;
min-width:0px; /* Do not neeed to match width to parent MenuItemContainer - items will prevent total collapse*/
top: 0px; /* If desired, you can move this down a smidge to separate top item''s submenu from menubar -
that is really only needed for submenu on first item of MenuLevel1, or you can make it negative to make submenu more
vertically 'centered' on its invoking item */
left:100%; /* If you want to shift the submenu left to partially cover its invoking item, you can add a margin-left with a
negative value to this rule. Alternatively, if you use fixed-width items, you can change this left value
to use px or ems to get the offset you want. */
/* IE6 rules - you can delete these if you do not want to support IE6 */
/* A note about multiple classes in IE6.
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* giving the selector '.MenuItemWithSubMenu.MenuItemHover'.
* Unfortunately IE6 does not support using mutiple classnames in a selector for an element. For a selector such as '.foo.bar.baz', IE6 ignores
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* css style block to make it easy to delete if you want to drop IE6 support.
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* The 'SpryIsIE6' class is placed on the HTML element by the script in SpryMenuBarIEWorkaroundsPlugin.js if the browser is Internet Explorer 6. This avoids the necessity of IE conditional comments for these rules.
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuBarView .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel /* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #999999; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #000000;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .MenuBarView .SubMenu .MenuItemWithSubMenuHover .MenuItemLabel/* IE6 selector */{
background-color: #cccccc; /* consider exposing this prop separately*/
color: #333333;
.SpryIsIE6 .MenuBar .SubMenu .SubMenu /* IE6 selector */{
margin-left: -0px; /* Compensates for at least part of an IE6 "double padding" version of the "double margin" bug */
what is the rule i nedd to change? i think the background colour of the submenu is lightgray #CCCCCC right now, and the hover one is a darker colour.
thanks!

I am sorry to have to point out to you that you have changed SpryMenuBasicSkin.css so much that it is impossible to render any assistance.
To start with, the menubar has an ID of MenuBar, yet in the CSS I only see this referenced as a CLASS as in
.MenuBar {
background-color:#cccccc;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; /* Specify fonts on on MenuBar and subMenu MenuItemContainer, so MenuItemContainer,
MenuItem, and MenuItemLabel
at a given level all use same definition for ems.
Note that this means the size is also inherited to child submenus,
so use caution in using relative sizes other than
100% on submenu fonts. */
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 16px;
font-style: normal;
padding:0;
border-color: #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff #ffffff;
border-width:0px;
border-style: none none none none;
I would suggest to start again.
Once you have done that, supply a link to your site and we will assist you further.
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I tried rebooting, but that didn't resolve issues 2 & 3 (didn't check issue 1 but that one seems a true bug or omission).
Any ideas? A quick peek on here didn't serve any similar stories, so am I the only one experiencing this?

I'm using iDVD 7.0.4 on a mid-2010 13" MBP with 6Gb of RAM, running OSX 10.6.5 . I created a new project, and applied an old theme I created in iDVD 5 or 6. The theme is basically empty, apart from a single backdrop image and a few font specifications. (I like things simple...)
I then imported a QT movie created with Final Cut Express HD 3.5.1 from 16:9 (anamorphic) PAL DV material. The movie contains about 9 chapter markers and was corrected back from 720x576 to 1024x576 in QuickTime Player 7.
The movie imported correctly, but chapter titles with accented characters were lost (issue 1)
Issue 2: Doing a Save-As of an open project provokes a crash - immediately if I use the keyboard shortcut, delayed if I use the menu. Yet it has worked a single time.
Issue 3: After finalising the project, I decided to do a final edit on the chapter title text colour. Impossible to consolidate that to disk: if I save a project changed in this manner, it will no longer open correctly. iDVD will complain about missing theme elements, and force the default theme on me.
I tried rebooting, but that didn't resolve issues 2 & 3 (didn't check issue 1 but that one seems a true bug or omission).
Any ideas? A quick peek on here didn't serve any similar stories, so am I the only one experiencing this?

Setting the order of my mov.s in idvd?

editing in the latest final cuts express/ exporting fce sequence to mov.s/ dragging mov.s (currently 3) into idvd "revolution main" box/ adding chapters at 5 min. intervals/ cleaning the silly menus (noxious music, whirling things, 38 minute loop duration)/ burning.
if i have 3 mov.s in the idvd project, idvd chooses the order not me. that's unacceptable. how does it chooses the order and why?
i suppose there's a way to put it all in a single timeline in final cuts express, make chapter markers in fce to delineate the 3 parts of the project, the doing something with even more submenus in idvd then add the 5 minute chapter markers in there. or is there away to do that?????????????????????
none of this is " new apple laptop WORKS RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX"!!!

My experience is that if I drag the movies into an iDVD menu screen one by one, the “tab” order will be the order that I create the movie buttons. By “tab” order, I mean the order in which the buttons will be selected when I use the down-arrow button to go from one button to the next. I assume that's the “sequence” you are referring to.
Last night I figured out how to change the tab order, albeit in a simple case. I had used an old project as a template for a new one. The old project had three movie buttons on the main menu, and a fourth “?” button that opened a submenu containing some “about” text with no buttons. The tab order was
Movie1->Movie2->Movie3->?
I saved as a new project, deleted the existing 3 Movie buttons, and dragged in a single new MovieX. The menu looked fine, with the MovieX button centered in the menu, and the ? button in the lower right corner. But when I ran the DVD simulator, I saw that the tab order was
?->MovieX, so that when the DVD menu first appeared, the ? button was selected by default -- not what I wanted.
I figure I could have just deleted the ? item and recreated it from scratch. I suspect that would have corrected the tab order problem, since the new version would be the last button created. But I was too lazy to retype the About text.
I went into the Map window (horizontal layout), and I noticed that the order in which the movie and About submenu appeared, to the right of the main menu item, reflected the tab order - the About submenu was above the movie. Looking at the original project showed that its 3 movie items were above its About submenu.
I tried just dragging the movie to another position -- that didn't work. Here's what did work -- I selected the About submenu, right-clicked it and selected Cut from the popup. The About submenu disappeared, and the movie moved up into its position. Then I selected the main menu item, right-clicked it, and selected Paste from the popup. The About submenu then reappeared to the right of the main menu, but now BELOW the movie.
Sure enough, when I went back to the DVD simulation, the MovieX button was selected as the default at startup. The final physical DVD also worked as intended.

IPhoto 6 Colour Problems

Having just upgraded to iPhoto 6, my iPhoto library thumbnail colours have all become v. high chroma and lurid. All photos look fine in Preview and Quicktime players, but not in iPhoto, which makes them impossible to edit correctly, as the colours do not come good in edit mode. My last import was exactly the same, but on responding to a "Rebuild thumbnail caches?" most (but not all) of the new thumbnails became normal, and ALL pictures looked normal in edit mode. Success! Oh no. On importing the pictures to iDVD to make a slideshow, most (but not all) of the slides are wan, pale, low chroma and frankly useless. The ones that do look OK are the ones that still have a high chroma thumbnail in iPhoto library. The import was from a shop CD with Colour Sync Profile ON. I did a comparative import with it switched off, with no change. My question is:- How can I adjust iPhoto so that images look "normal", as they do in Preview and Quicktime, and resumably iDVD too, so that what I see, I get. I am convinced that it is an iPhoto 6 issue, as it was fine before upgrading. Good as it is for editing, at the moment it is totally useless, as there is no way you can second guess such a massive colour shift so that it comes out ok on DVD. Probably some simple setting in preferences, but nothing has worked so far. As far as I can ascertain, all my settings are correct. Can this effect be reversed without re-importing the whole library (I have backed it up in DVD).....Please help me!

The page for the 7.0.1 reinstaller is to remove 7.0.3 and then install 7.0.1 but should work with the current version. If it won't it should tell you so. Also there's a new QT update out today, 7.1.1. Here's what it says on the download page:
"QuickTime 7.1.1 addresses an issue with 3rd party start-up items on Intel Macs. This release also fixes an issue exporting to Keynote presentations to iDVD. Also delivers numerous bug fixes, support for iLife06, and H.264 performance improvements. This update is highly recommended for all QuickTime 7 users. "
That might help.

VHS Captured With DV Converter Judders In Compressor/DVDSP, OK In iDVD.

This is more a statement than a question.
Some people will be familiar with my inability to produce judder-free DVDs from HDV or AIC footage burned in iDVD ........ which I have previously described +ad nauseam.+
Well here's something entirely different!
Yesterday I copied an old, very poor quality VHS tape to DV via my DAC 100 converter.
Apart from the lousy colour and pictorial quality, the video played OK in the timeline so I exported it to Compressor and burned in DVDSP.
The DVD exhibited the same kind of judder I get when I try to encode HDV in QT Movie and iDVD.
I wasted another DVD getting the same result, so in desperation I exported my project to QT Movie and burned it in iDVD.
The results - PERFECT - at least as far as image steadiness was concerned!

iDVD 7.0.1 and Compressor 3.0.3
I was hoping this would crack the old problem, but no.
I used a 40 second sequence with the camera panning very slowly across a street of houses with strong contrasty vertical and horizontal lines formed by windows, doors, drainpipes and rooflines etc. in the first half and a person walking across the frame etc. slowly in the second half. The 6' walker was a fair distance away only filling about 45% of the height of the frame.
4 test QT Movies were exported and burned in iDVD on one DVD. These were the straight video and then 3 versions with the Shift Filter in the +1, None and -1 settings.
They all looked the same, with jitter not so much on the vertical lines as the horizontal ones, which was a little surprising. The person walking across the frame definitely exhibited jitter.
All these problems disappear when encoded in Compressor or down-converted to DV by the camera during capture and burned in iDVD.
Still, it was worth a try.
I'm wondering whether it is possible to hack into iDVD and maybe alter field etc. settings in there!
There has to be some simple reason why there is a dramatic difference between Compressor/DVDSP and iDVD and it's nothing to do with quality or power or cost.
Incidentally a friend of mine went on a world tour, using an identical HV20 and rough-editing on her MBP as she went. The resulting rough edits were burned in iDVD and the DVDs sent back to her family. These DVDs apparently were jittery but the family didn't mind!

How can I control the order of iDVD menu items using the Arrow keys?

I have a submenu screen containing 10 selectable buttons plus the Return Arrow button. I have ordered all the slideshows in the correct order in the DVD map. However, when I run the program, the arrow keys jump the selection focus in an apparently random sequence. How can I control the order of the selection focus?
I'm using iDVD v 7.1.2
TIA.
Ron

Hi
There is one thing You might miss in iDVD - So do I - the ability to re-arrange in the DVD map (block diagram)
The order things will be pplayed or addrssed is same as the order each item is introduced into iDVD.
To my knowledge ther is no way around this.
Yours Bengt W

2 Out Of 9 Short FCE Videos Mysteriously Stretched In iDVD.

I posted this in the iDVD forum yesterday but have received no response and it now appears it could equally be an FCE problem.
Yesterday I made 9 short slideshow videos in Final Cut Express, exported them as QuickTime Movies (NOT self-contained) and dragged them into a 4:3 PAL iDVD project. (The pictures were hi-res JPEG scans of 35mm slides so have an aspect ratio of 3:2 and appear letterboxed in the 4:3 sequences in FCE).
On playing the project in iDVD, 2 of the 9 videos were stretched and had the statement "Widescreen Preview" in green.
Yet all the videos were created identically.
Thinking it was maybe an FCE problem I checked all the project/sequence data in FCE and it was all OK. They also played back normally in both FCE and QT Player.
Can anyone suggest how this has happened?
This morning I trashed both FCE’s and iDVD’s preferences to no avail.
I have also re-exported the videos as self-contained QT Movies but still no luck.
One other, more sinister “problem”, is that last night I let the cursor hover over the iDVD playback button and the iDVD monitor suddenly started giving a fantastic display of brightly coloured geometrical shapes ...... mostly triangles, I think.
Then when I switched back to FCE there was a strange interface break-up just under and around the cursor looking like lots of small black squares or mosaics. I switched both apps off immediately and went to bed!
A failing video card?
So far this morning, after trashing preferences, repairing permissions and disconnecting the power cable for several minutes, both programs appear to be OK, but I am expecting the worst!

Hi Ian, try looking over these two threads:
The short and seemingly useful one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8995428
The long and somewhat unhelpful one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1475310&start=0&tstart=0
The key in the first one seems to be re-saving the movie as a self-contained movie using QT Pro. I wonder if the same thing would work if you exported as a self-contained QT movie from FCE?
The second one toys around with the AIFF audio being the problem, and suggests a workaround using a program called Inverse-Anamorphicizer. I'm not sure if I believe the conclusion about the audio these people came up with...
You might try the QT Pro approach first and see if that fixes it, especially because the second thread is quite long.
Also, take a look over this MacFixIt link:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080612095355771
Apparently you are not the only one with this problem!
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How do you create subfolder in IDVD?

I want to create a folder in iDVD so when I click over on a folder other subfolders can be seen. Ex. Folder "Months" click over this and now below appears:
months
Jan
Feb
power mac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.2)

Brian,
In iDVD 4 it's Project>Add Folder and in iDVD 6 it's Project>Add Submenu
I don't have iDVD 5 running on a machine right now so I'm not sure what it's called in iDVD 5.
F Shippey

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