| One of the benefits of iLife integration is the capability to send your iMovie project directly to iDVD, which creates a new project that includes your movie. To create an iDVD project: 1. | Choose iDVD from the Share menu, or press Command-Shift-E and click the iDVD icon (Figure 18.3). Figure 18.3. Click the iDVD icon in the Share dialog to send your movie to iDVD.
| 2. | Click the Share button. If any clips in your movie are sped up, slowed down, or reversed, iMovie displays a dialog with the option to render the clips (Figure 18.4), which redraws them at a higher quality than the preview you see during normal playback. If you choose the Proceed Anyway option, those clips may flicker or otherwise look bad when you play back the DVD. Figure 18.4. iMovie gives you the option of rendering clips that need to be rendered before sending the movie to iDVD.
When those steps are completed, iMovie launches iDVD (if it's not already running), and switches to it (Figure 18.5). Figure 18.5. The new iDVD project includes an option to play your entire movie (top), or you can access the chapters you created by double-clicking the Scene Selection option (result at bottom). |
Tips | | iDVD automatically saves the new project in the Documents folder within your Home directory. To work on it somewhere else (such as a large external hard disk), quit iDVD, copy the project to the new location, and open it from there. As with other methods of sharing, you can create an iDVD project that contains only clips that you choose. Select the clips in the Timeline or the Clips pane, then go to the Share dialog. Mark the checkbox labeled Share selected clips only before you click the Share button.
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