New in iDVD ’08.
Let your admiring audience enjoy those movies and slideshows in their living rooms. Quickly create a Hollywood-style disc with iDVD, using Apple-designed animated themes to give your DVD a gorgeous style from main screen to chapter selection. Ten new themes and snappier performance make iDVD more fun than ever.
Ten new animated themes.
Apple-designed themes with animated menus give you more choices in 16:9 and 4:3 formats. Learn more
Better performance.
Snappier response means faster switching between themes and menus to explore your options. Learn more
Advanced menu customization.
New button library, drop zone editor, and dynamic alignment guides provide total control. Learn more
Stunning slideshows.
Combine video and photos in your slideshows and use higher-quality photos. Learn more
Pro-quality encoding.
Maintain higher quality with more of your movies and slideshows on a single DVD. Learn more
Better performance.
iDVD is more responsive, so the creative process is faster and more fun. Rapidly switch among themes as you try out different looks for your menus. Quickly navigate between menus. Preview your completed project with smoother real-time playback.
Switch themes fast.
iDVD gives you more than 150 themes to choose from, so you’ll never be wanting for variety. With just a click, you can switch the theme of all your menus at once.
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Snappy navigation.
Want to try out some new button styles? Move things around a bit? Feel free. iDVD lets you navigate from menu to menu quickly, so you can make changes without delays.
Preview projects.
Look before you burn. iDVD has the power to preview even the biggest projects with smooth, real-time playback. So you know exactly what you’re going to get before you burn that disc.
Ten new animated themes.
iDVD lets you choose from more than 150 Apple-designed animated themes, including ten new theme families with coordinated designs for every screen in your DVD. Simply choose a theme, then drag your videos and photos into the drop zones to make them 100% yours.
One theme does it all.
Each theme includes a family of beautifully coordinated screens, including Main Menu, Chapters Menu, and Extras Menu for content like slideshows. Each theme features attractive animations with drop zones that make it easy to add your own photos and movie clips. Your DVD will look polished from start to finish.
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Pick a format, any format.
New iDVD themes come in both widescreen (16:9) and standard (4:3) formats. You can switch from one to the other at any time — so you can take full advantage of today’s widescreen TVs.
Variety is the spice of iDVD.
In addition to the new theme families, iDVD ’08 includes all themes from the most recent versions of iDVD (themes from earlier versions are available via free download). You’ll find a theme for every occasion, no matter what the occasion.
Advanced menu customization.
Make every DVD uniquely yours. iDVD ’08 gives you a range of options for customizing your menu screens. You can edit drop zones, choose from an expanded button library, and use built-in alignment guides to make your layout perfect.
New drop zone editor.
A new interface allows you to see your project and the drop zone editor at the same time. So it’s much easier to add, edit, or delete the photos and videos in your drop zones.
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Buttons and more buttons.
With the expanded button library in iDVD, you can choose from a huge variety of shapes and sizes. And you can edit buttons, titles, and text using context-sensitive floating palettes.
Keep ‘em in line.
Your menu screen is no place for guesswork. iDVD features built-in dynamic alignment guides that pop up automatically to help you center any canvas object or align it with other objects.
Pro-quality encoding.
See movies and slideshows in superb quality. The new professional-quality option in iDVD uses advanced encoding technology to maintain the highest possible quality for DVDs that are near or at the disc’s capacity.
Quality is everything.
The built-in capacity meter helps you evaluate which quality level to select, so you can always get the best out of the content you wish to include. Exactly the kind of respect your cinematographic efforts deserve.
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Stunning slideshows.
iDVD now allows you to use higher quality photos in your slideshows, which means you’re in for an even more impressive show on that big screen TV. You can also combine video clips and photos in your slideshow presentations.
Expanded format support.
iDVD stands ready to work with all the new video formats and devices supported by iMovie ’08. Using the iLife Media Browser, you can drag any video clip or movie from iMovie into your iDVD project.
