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At this point, iDVD ’08 has opened to its default theme, called “Revolution.” However,
one of the best features of the program is that you get to choose your theme. From the
browsing panel on the right, you can choose to browse the themes by iDVD edition (5.0
is from iDVD 5, 6.0 is from iDVD 6, 7.0 is from iDVD ’08 – go figure) or you can
simply browse All.
When you browse by All, iDVD orders the thumbnails most recent to
least recent. This means that the newest menus are towards the top of
the list. Next to the newest menus are expander triangles. You can
click on these to view the corresponding submenus.
To preview a menu in the Menu Screen, click on the thumbnail once.
The newer menus default to a widescreen aspect ratio. If you
previously specified that your aspect ratio is standard (you specified
this during the same window where you set the file name and location
to save to), a popup menu will remind you of this fact.
• Cancel = “Never mind. I didn’t actually want to see that
theme.”
• Keep = “Yes, I know I chose standard aspect ratio. I would
like standard aspect ratio applied to this theme as well.”
• Change = “I made a mistake earlier and would like to change
my aspect ratio to widescreen.”
• Do not ask me again (checked) = iDVD will change the aspect ratio to
widescreen each time you try a new menu without asking for permission first.
If you plan on exploring many of the menus, because let’s face it – that’s just good fun,
consider changing the aspect ratio to widescreen by selecting Change. This will ensure
that you don’t see this little screen every time you try out a new menu. Just don’t forget
to change your aspect ratio back before you burn your DVD. To do this, go to Project
>> Switch to Standard.
A large majority of the menus involve a looping motion. If you want to turn off
the loop as you’re working on fine-tuning your DVD menu click the MOTION
icon (fourth from the left – it looks similar to a refresh icon). Likewise, to start
the motion, click the icon again. You know when the feature is running, because
the icon changes from a black-white image to a white-neon blue image. Even if you turn
off the looping motion during the editing process, it will return once the DVD is burned
(unless you change the settings, see below).
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