iDVD is Apple's DVD authoring and burning software.
When it first launched in 2001, it caused a revolution in the consumer authoring division.
The newest version in the series is iDVD '09 which comes packed with iLife 2009 application suite for Mac.
With iDVD you can make professional level DVDs at the touch of a button.
iDVD is well integrated with the other iLife applications like iMovie and iPhoto making it easy for exporting movies and photos. It comes bundled with a lot of new themes that complement nicely the themes from the previous version.
iDVD is designed to help the consumer to make Hollywood style DVDs easily on a Mac.
Users can also import from Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.
iDVD also provides an unique set of professional fonts for creating your DVD.
When starting with iDVD, the user is presented with an option to choose between creating your own project, creating a magic DVD and a one step DVD.
Choosing magic DVD you can set the title to your DVD and choose a theme from a list 150+ of professional themes available both in standard 4:3 format and 16:9 format. You can even edit the main menu, chapters menu and extras menu. Most of the themes have attractive animations and brings out a nice movie theater effect to your DVD. The themes can also be personalized with your choice of pictures and movies into drop zones.
You can import videos and pictures to create a slideshow. Drag and drop your favorite music to pictures and you can have ambient music in the background for your slideshows.
iDVD also offers a one step DVD option for creating a DVD directly from your camcorder. Connect the camcorder and set it VCR or play mode.Click on One step mode and the iDVD burns your content directly from camcorder to your DVD.
With create your own project you can create a customized theme for your DVD from scratch. You can choose where you want to have your title,create sub-menus and choose the background from a range of themes available.
Wrap-up: iDVD provides the user with a clean easy to use interface being one of the user friendly DVD authoring software available for Mac.
Requirements for iDVD:
Apple computer with superdrive (recommended) or a third party optical drive.
Operating system : Mac OS X v10.5.6
