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How to burn a DVD in the IDEA Center
iDVD is a simple Mac application that allows you to make a DVD from a quicktime movie. The DVD's will play in both computers and relatively new commercial DVD players (sorry, the older ones won't play burned DVD's ;-( ). You need DVD-R's, not DVD+R's for our systems.
Just follow these easy steps:
- Export your movie from Final Cut (File>Export>Quicktime Movie)
- If you are using iMovie, select File>Share>Quicktime>Compress Movie for>Full Quality DV. After the movie has exported, you must change the suffix from .dv to .mov in order for it to show up correctly in the DVD menu (it will still play, it will just say ___.dv if you don't change it)
- Open iDVD.
- Click on Customize.
- Select a Theme (in this example, 3.0 themes>Book).
- Make sure your movie is correctly named (it will appear in the menu with the name you give it, minus the .mov suffix.
- Look on the right hand side (remember - we're using the 3.0 theme Book for this tutorial). See where it says "Book"? If you double click on that, you can change the name of the DVD to whatever you like (i.e., my Final Project, My Portfolio, Apocalypse Now, etc.).
- Drag your movie file (remember, it has to have that .mov suffix) just below the title of the DVD. Don't worry about moving it around right now.
- See where it says "drag photos or movies here"? You can drag a .jpeg image or your movie to that space and it will repeat the first few seconds of it over and over again, just like a commercial DVD.
- In the upper left hand corner, click on "settings".
- You can set the duration of the menu, the transitions, etc. at the top. Click on any of the text elements, select "text" and align/set the font here. Click on "button/free position and align the buttons any way you like.
- You can drag an .mp3 or aiff file to the window that says "Audio" to replace the standard Apple background music.. You can replace the entire visual background if you drag a .jpeg to the "background" window.
- Once you have finished fine-tuning your DVD, click on "status" to see how the encoding is going. It has to finish before you can burn your DVD. If you are trying to make your DVD for your final, and you have 2 minutes until it's due and you just read this, you're screwed.
- Once it's finished encoding, just click on "Burn" in the lower right hand corner. The CD/DVD drive will open, just insert a DVD-R (we recommend FUJI or TDK DVD's - they don't pay us, they just seem to be the best ones), and follow the prompts.
DVD's take longer to burn than CD's (because they need to be encoded and have a much greater data capacity). Plan accordingly. PC's and Macs take exactly the same amount of time to burn DVD's.
If you have any problems, just ask the lab tech for help. It's actually very easy,
once you get the hang of it!
Problems with software or hardware? just report it to the lab monitor or email musictechnology@foothill.edu
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