iDVD

Over this past summer I became addicted to Expert Village, so much so that I even reccomended that it be placed in an online high school couse that I had created! You can learn how to do pretty much anything on there, from riding a bike to cooking Knocchi. (I am impressed if you can tell me what Knocchi is. it's a Servant family staple.)

Anyway, Expert Village put up a tutorial on how to play with iDVD. While i'm not totally enamored with the user interface of the MAC (sorry Dr. Nich!) I think thier software is pretty out there in a cool way.

anyway, IDVD is a a pretty cool yet simple program that you can upload projects and iPhoto slideshows and export them to DVD. iMovie projects, scene selection menus are automatically created with chapter markers that are set in a Movie. iDVD also has a Media section that provides an iTunes library, iPhoto library and Movies folder. There is a map view, which shows the current project's menu system in a graphical form. You can also hide or show the 'TV safe area' (because old televisions often cut off some of a video's outer areas). iDVD can also upload to Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro.

It's actually a pretty cool program to play around with if you have a Mac. One thing you can do is Creating intro Animations to play with homemade movies or other mash-ups.

Matt Nichols has a pretty cool tuotial on how to do just that.

Creating Introduction Animation in iDVD

Sorry about the post order Dr. N. I forgot my own last name. :)