Map in IDVD 5

When I open the map in iDVD 5 I see boxes. The top one has a note that says, Drag content here to automatically play when disk is inserted. What is the content they are talking about and where is it?

Thanks for the help. But when I drag my movie I get one of two messages Your Project exceeds the maximum allowfd content duration. You will not be able to burn your dvd while your Encoder Seting is Best Performance. This can be changed in your iDVD Preferences. I changed them and get the same message. what can I do?.

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Follow me on this one: Made an iMovie and shared it with iDVD. Did all the menu items, etc. and burned the DVD. After watching the DVD, I wanted to make some edits. I went into iMovie and did the edits.
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Hi Lads & Ladettes
I have just finished my long awaited test wedding dvd. I sorted out all the quality issues and it all looks great, the thing is I decided to but chapter markers in Imovie there is 26 of them each with 4 movie clips in between them.
When I burned the dvd and pressed the play movie button it started the movie in the middle somewhere???
Many thanks for your thoughts
Tim

Thanks for reply apple man, yeah I noticed that and maybe thats what it is now i think about it..... because I actually deleted that one in the map in idvd but saying that my no1 chapter marker was after my intro and titles in imovie so surely it would start then, i think i might try exporting again and I won't delete nothing this time......
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As I am not computer literate and am a "grey and wrinkly", help would be much appreciated in its simplest terms. I hope to create other slideshows and progress to movies eventually! Thank you.

Welcome to the Forum. The next time you ask a question, please don't add on to someone else's message thread - this is known as 'thread-jacking'.
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The Quicktime file is one created by my videographer, 3 minutes long, with music and voice. ... Obviously the fault is in iDVD.
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screen.
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VJK,
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Is it possible to create a DVD in iDVD without using the themes they provide?

Is it possible to create a DVD in iDVD without using the themes they provide?

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No Menu DVD
from. Mishmunken
How to create a DVD in iDVD6 without menu (there are several options)
1. Easy. Drop your iMovie in the auto-play box in iDVD's Map View, then set your auto-play item (your movie) to loop continuously.
Disadvantage. The DVD plays until you hit stop on the remote
2. Still easy. If you don't want your (auto-play) 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 drop-zone (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.
4. (My preferred method) Easy enough but needs 3rd party software. Toast lets you burn your iMovie to DVD without menu - just drag the iMovie project to the Toast Window and click burn.
Disadvantage. you'll need to spend some extra $$ for the software. In Toast, you just drop the iMovie project on the Window and click Burn.
5. The "hard way". Post-production with myDVDedit (free-ware)
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//lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html
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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.

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!
- Fred
CREATING A SET OF SUB MENUS ON MAIN MENU IN iDVD
NOTE: when you import the iMovie file don’t add to the drop zones or add music to the sub menus until you finish this work!
Go to the map view. Once in map view choose to show the map view as a flow chart moving from left to right – it’s the left selection of the two which appear on the left-hand side of the sizing slider tool that determines how big the map view icons will appear. You will want to set that slider to the minimum size to make it easier to navigate. Select the main menu icon.
Open the main menu to edit it and select “Scene Selection” and then copy and paste it as many times as you have sub menus. Each sub menu can only hold 6 scenes so if you have 18 scenes you will have 3 sub menus which means you will copy the first one and then past it twice which will give you 3 sets of “Scene Selection” options on the main page.
After you create the set of “Scene Selections” return to map view. You will now have a copy of each group of sub menus under each sub menu. The entire film will be recreated for each set of “Scene Selections” that you have and you need to edit them out so that you have only one for each sub menu.
You CANNOT simply delete the groups in front of the one you want to keep. For instance, suppose you have 3 sub menu groups and you are at the first sub menu selection. You cannot simply delete the first two groups in front of the third one – it will delete all of the sub menus after the one you want.
(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.
Once you have deleted the scenes you can cut and paste the last group of scenes to the first sub menu selection in the group. Once done you can delete the other sub menus groups that come after the first one.
Once you have the group of scenes moved to the first sub menu selection you need to change the name of the group of scenes. For instance if you are working on group 13-18 you need to change the group name from 1-6 which is what it is currently named.
Repeat these steps for each successive group moving up from the last one to the top with one change – you will choose to delete the last group from each successive sub menu since you have already saved it in the last group you worked on which is below the one upon which you are now working.
Once you are at the top group you will then simply be able to delete the other sub menus that appear beyond the first one.

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