Editing IDVD (section)

== Features ==
iDVD includes over 150 Apple-designed themes. Themes set the layout, background art, typography, and soundtrack for DVD menus and submenus, and each theme includes a main DVD menu, a chapter navigation menu, and an Extras screen. Users can customize the fonts, add freeform text boxes, and change the position and style of buttons.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|pp=380-395}} (In iDVD, the term ''button'' refers to thumbnails like "Play" and "Scene Selection" in DVD menus, that can take viewers to different parts of the movie; these buttons can be selected with the TV remote when playing a burned disc.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|pp=374-375}})

Most themes include "drop zones," decorative placeholders for movies, slideshows, or individual photos. On the burned disc, these "drop zone" movies and slideshows play on a loop while viewers are in a menu. Depending on the selected theme, each menu screen can have between 6 and 12 buttons. If users add more movies than can fit on one screen, iDVD adds submenus to fit those new movies. Users can also manually create submenus. Each menu can have its own theme.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|pp=374-406}}

iDVD integrated tightly with the rest of the [[iLife]] suite. [[iMovie]] projects and [[iPhoto]] slideshows can be exported from those applications to iDVD.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=259, 413}} In the case of iMovie projects, scene selection menus are automatically created in accordance with chapter markers that were set within iMovie.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=379-380}} iDVD's Media panel can be used to import media from the user's [[iTunes]] library, [[iPhoto]] library, and Movies folder.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=328, 410-418}} iDVD also has a Map view, which shows a flow chart of the project's menu hierarchy. The Map view includes an Autoplay tile, and any video dragged onto that tile will automatically play when the DVD is inserted into a player, before the menu appears; the DVD may consist of nothing but Autoplay material, and hence contain no menus.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=408-412}} A menu bar button lets users enable gridlines showing the [[Safe area (television)|TV-safe area]] (as old televisions often cut off some of a video's outer areas).{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=428}} iDVD also incorporates a "OneStep DVD" function, which automatically rewinds the connected [[Camcorder#Analog and digital|miniDV-tape camcorder]], imports its footage, and directly burns it to a DVD.{{Sfn|Pogue|Miller|2011|p=398}}