iDVD is a discontinued
DVD authoring application for
Mac OS
Two major famlies of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc.
In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic" Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded "M ...
produced by
Apple Inc.
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iDVD allows the user to burn
QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Created in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is avai ...
movies,
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...
music, and digital
photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It was often considered the last step of
Apple's iLife suite, bringing together the results of all of the other iLife apps onto a
removable medium.
Availability
While initially available only for
Macs with a
SuperDrive, it was included until 2011 with all new Macs; from iDVD 6 onwards,
Apple
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supported the ability to burn projects with third-party optical drives. iDVD was no longer preinstalled on Macs shipping with
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and was not available on the Mac App Store with all of the other iLife apps. It was, however, still available in the boxed copy of iLife '11, until the release of iLife '13. It is no longer functional on macOS 10.15+ because it is not a
64-bit application.
Description
iDVD included over 100 Apple-designed themes for DVD menus and submenus, which allowed for the easy creation of DVD menu systems. Each theme included "drop zones," onto which movies or photographs could be placed, some of which could be animated automatically. Any theme could be applied to each of the menus in an iDVD project.
iDVD integrated tightly with the rest of the
iLife suite, as well as with
Final Cut Express
Final Cut Express was a video editing software suite created by Apple Inc. It was the consumer version of Final Cut Pro and was designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high-definition video, which was used by many amateur and ...
and
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is a series of non-linear editing, non-linear video editing software programs first developed by Macromedia, Macromedia Inc. and later Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro 10.6.4, runs on Macintosh, Mac computers power ...
.
iMovie projects and
iPhoto
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slideshows could be exported directly to iDVD. In the case of iMovie projects, scene selection menus were automatically created in accordance with chapter markers that were set within iMovie. The application also had a Media panel that provided access to the user's
iTunes
iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital mul ...
library, iPhoto library and Movies folder at any time. It also provided a map view, which showed a flow chart of the project's menu system.
Another feature was the ability to hide or show an approximation of the 'TV-safe area' (as old televisions often cut off some of a video's outer areas). iDVD also incorporated a 'One-Step DVD' function, which would automatically rewind the currently connected
DV camcorder
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and burn a DVD of the video footage stored on the tape.
iDVD shipped with fonts (located at /Applications/iDVD.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts) that were not installed, to prevent them from being available to other applications by default.
Version history
See also
*
List of DVD authoring applications The following applications can be used to create playable DVDs.
Free software
Free software implementations often lack features such as encryption and region coding due to licensing restrictions issues, and depending on the demands of the DVD produ ...
References
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MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
DVD
Video editing software
Products and services discontinued in 2011
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