Read announcement Hide announcement. Is iMovie HD 6 the same as iMovie 6?) 2) 'iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6 for Mac OS X (Visual Quickstart Guide)' by Jeff Carlson thanks! Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11) Posted on May 14, 2009 5:21. Nov 29, 2005  #5 The other solution, of course, is to have iDVD create a disk image file instead of having it actually burn the disk. I prefer this because I can then check out the file with DVD Player to see if it is OK - then burn the final disk with Toast.

You can create wide-screen iDVD projects for viewing on your wide-screen TV.iDVD 6’s themes have been designed to accommodate both the wide aspect ratio and the standard (4:3) ratio. In fact, you can switch between them easily in the same project.

Some older themes have been updated for the wide-screen format, and even the ones that still work best in the standard ratio will now also work in wide-screen format.With that newfound flexibility comes another bonus: you can now resize the iDVD window. If you’re working on a large monitor, you can expand the window to a more comfortable size—the window in previous iDVD versions looks like a glorified postage stamp on a 30-inch Apple Cinema Display (;).Another example of Apple’s forward-looking approach is its most significant new feature in iDVD: Apple has finally opened the door to burning projects with third-party optical drives.

In iDVD 6, you can burn a DVD from a Mac that doesn’t include a SuperDrive, a restriction that Apple arbitrarily imposed in earlier versions; iDVD 5 enabled you to save the project to a disc image, but you still needed to find a Mac with a SuperDrive to burn your project to a disc. Magic iDVDWhile preparing for the future, Apple hasn’t left current users behind.

Although some folks prefer to shoot video and photos and then edit them to their liking, a lot of people would rather throw it all on a DVD that has a little structure and polish without doing all the work. That’s where the new Magic iDVD feature comes in.Magic iDVD is a good starting point for developing a project, by letting you easily choose elements to fit into one of iDVD’s elegant themes.Like the Magic iMovie feature found in iLife ’06 suite-mate iMovie (;), Magic iDVD lets you choose a theme and grab a bunch of video footage and photos, and then it assembles everything for you.Its interface is straightforward, and the result works well either for burning to a disc or as a foundation for customizing later.That said, Magic iDVD could use a few slight improvements to make it even better.

For example, it needs some indication of how much disc space your material is going to occupy, so you don’t delete media blindly in an attempt to stay within a disc’s capacity. Also, the feature needs controls for choosing transition styles for slide shows (which are currently picked randomly) and for selecting a project’s aspect ratio. (You can, however, modify both options by turning the Magic iDVD into a regular iDVD project.) Speaking of slide shows, you’ll discover that iDVD is no longer bound by the 99-photo limit. Due to a clever method of bridging sections of the DVD specification, the iDVD team has made it possible to cram as many as 9,801 photos into a single slide show. Finding your way with the mapThe Map view became more functional in iDVD 5, but in iDVD 6 it finally incorporates the ability to rearrange sections simply by dragging them. Now you can move a slide show from the main menu to a submenu, or promote submenus buried a few levels deep.I’m particularly fond of the new Smart Delete feature of the map.

Control-click on a submenu that you want to remove and choose Smart Delete to zap the submenu but retain the elements (movies, sub-submenus, and slide shows, for example) further down the hierarchy.The ability to resize the iDVD window helps when working in Map view, too. Instead of making the map elements smaller to fit into the visible space—which makes it harder to identify them—just increase the window size.The map also points out when potential errors crop up. Position your mouse pointer over a triangular warning icon to view a Tool Tip explaining the problem. More refinementsA number of smaller improvements make working in iDVD 6 better than working in previous iDVD versions. At long last, submenus are referred to consistently as submenus, not folders (which seemed confusing to newcomers).

Also, I’m not sorry to see that the Customize panel is gone; it has been replaced by an iMovie-style set of panes that occupy the right side of the window.The only continuing irritation is that playback of the motion effects and previews is choppy, even on a fast Mac (a dual-processor 2.3GHz Power Mac G5, for example). However, the burned discs played back smoothly in my DVD player. Macworld’s buying adviceiDVD used to be a simple application that let you burn a nice-looking DVD, thanks to Apple’s themes. With iDVD 6, you can further control how you structure and customize your project, or let Magic iDVD do the thematic work for you.

Although, iDVD is ready to adapt to whatever comes next.Jeff Carlson is managing editor ofand is the author ofiMovie HD & iDVD 5 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide(Peachpit Press, 2005).

IDVD does work on Sierra and High Sierra, although quirky, but I have read that others have been unable to install iDVD on Sierra. I installed my iDVD on Mavericks, I think, and it got carried along through successive updates to High Sierra. I have not tried to make the install on High Sierra itself.Are you attempting to install from an iLife disc? That would be the way to make the attempt. Since iDVD works on Sierra it would seem that it should be able to be installed there. I realize that you have found that it doesn't install, so I'm not at all disputing your findings.However, iDVD appears to be a dying program that runs worse on each successive update of the operating system. It is a 32 bit program and if Apple moves to 64bit it will be gone unless you can run it on El Capitan or earlier.

Therefore you might want to consider moving to another DVD authoring program unless you can get El Capitan or earlier on a boot disc.I have not used any DVD authoring program other than iDVD. However, here are some that I have seen recommended:DVD Maker Lite - DVD CreatorRoxio Toast TitaniumDVD Maker ProThere are several DVD programs in the app store. Most have free trial availability.- Rich. IDVD runs smoothly on El Capitan and previous operating systems. IDVD also is compatible with Sierra and High Sierra but it has gotten more and more quirky with those operating systems.

The themes don't function properly. There are burn issues. Still, you can successfuly burn a DVD with iDVD even on Sierra or High Sierra.

I use the Full Frame '05 theme and drag a photo into it to create the display. Then drag in a video for the body of the project. A lower resolution video, 480, tends to have less problems. If there is a burn issue you may need to create a new project and redo. I have a backup older Mac Air, running El Capitan, that I sometimes use with iDVD for project creation and burning. I create the movie on my newer High Sierra MacBook Pro, and transfer the movie to the Mac Air for iDVD.It is possible to have two operating systems on your Mac. You would need to partition your drive at the outset, before putting any data on it.

Another option is to create a boot disk where you have El Capitan, Yosemite, or Mountain Lion on it for iDVD. This is not something I have done. If you are interested in trying it you can educate yourself on the internet. Here's a link that might help get you started:- Rich. If not what are the implications of going back to an older OS?In our video lab our are Macs are frozen to OS 10.9.5. We do this because we believe OS 10.9.5 is the last version to run iMovie HD 06 with no issues. It also runs iDVD perfectly.Obviously, we would be perfectly happy to use the current Mac operating system, but sadly the best video tools don't run on it anymore.

Nothing unusual about this philosophy. In the last years of the space shuttle, NASA was using 25 year old computers.Clearly, Apple thought optical media was out-ski.

But with the advent M-Disc and it's 1000 your lifetime optical media is proving to be the best choice for making backups (or movies) that you need to last longer than 5-10 years.There are options for editing movies and burning DVDs that run on the latest Mac OS. I have tried most of them.For editing movies there are some decent choices, but when it comes to authoring a DVD nothing comes remotely close to iDVD. The ease-of-use is incredible, we usually create moving menus for chapter selection. With iDVD you can author a DVD to Hollywood standards. (For making Blu-rays, we use Toast.)If you would like to see a 64-bit version of iDVD you can make a nicely worded suggestion to Apple. IDVD runs smoothly on El Capitan and previous operating systems. IDVD also is compatible with Sierra and High Sierra but it has gotten more and more quirky with those operating systems.

The themes don't function properly. There are burn issues. Still, you can successfuly burn a DVD with iDVD even on Sierra or High Sierra.

I use the Full Frame '05 theme and drag a photo into it to create the display. Then drag in a video for the body of the project. A lower resolution video, 480, tends to have less problems.

If there is a burn issue you may need to create a new project and redo. I have a backup older Mac Air, running El Capitan, that I sometimes use with iDVD for project creation and burning. I create the movie on my newer High Sierra MacBook Pro, and transfer the movie to the Mac Air for iDVD.It is possible to have two operating systems on your Mac. You would need to partition your drive at the outset, before putting any data on it. Another option is to create a boot disk where you have El Capitan, Yosemite, or Mountain Lion on it for iDVD. This is not something I have done. If you are interested in trying it you can educate yourself on the internet.

Smashing pumpkins my love is winter free mp3 download full. Here's a link that might help get you started:- Rich. Thank you, Rich.

This is very helpful.I would be interested to know how you get iDVD to run at all on High Sierra. I've installed it but can't get passed the message that comes up to say it is incompatible with the operating system.Meanwhile, I'm trying to work through the instructions in your link. I get annoyed with Apple who make their software redundant when it works well for people. I guess I'll have to decided whether to go down the route of an older operating system or find new DVD authoring software.

IDVD does work on Sierra and High Sierra, although quirky, but I have read that others have been unable to install iDVD on Sierra. I installed my iDVD on Mavericks, I think, and it got carried along through successive updates to High Sierra. I have not tried to make the install on High Sierra itself.Are you attempting to install from an iLife disc? That would be the way to make the attempt.

Since iDVD works on Sierra it would seem that it should be able to be installed there. I realize that you have found that it doesn't install, so I'm not at all disputing your findings.However, iDVD appears to be a dying program that runs worse on each successive update of the operating system. It is a 32 bit program and if Apple moves to 64bit it will be gone unless you can run it on El Capitan or earlier. Therefore you might want to consider moving to another DVD authoring program unless you can get El Capitan or earlier on a boot disc.I have not used any DVD authoring program other than iDVD. However, here are some that I have seen recommended:DVD Maker Lite - DVD CreatorRoxio Toast TitaniumDVD Maker ProThere are several DVD programs in the app store.

Most have free trial availability.- Rich. If not what are the implications of going back to an older OS?In our video lab our are Macs are frozen to OS 10.9.5. We do this because we believe OS 10.9.5 is the last version to run iMovie HD 06 with no issues. It also runs iDVD perfectly.Obviously, we would be perfectly happy to use the current Mac operating system, but sadly the best video tools don't run on it anymore. Nothing unusual about this philosophy.

In the last years of the space shuttle, NASA was using 25 year old computers.Clearly, Apple thought optical media was out-ski. But with the advent M-Disc and it's 1000 your lifetime optical media is proving to be the best choice for making backups (or movies) that you need to last longer than 5-10 years.There are options for editing movies and burning DVDs that run on the latest Mac OS.

I have tried most of them.For editing movies there are some decent choices, but when it comes to authoring a DVD nothing comes remotely close to iDVD. The ease-of-use is incredible, we usually create moving menus for chapter selection. With iDVD you can author a DVD to Hollywood standards. (For making Blu-rays, we use Toast.)If you would like to see a 64-bit version of iDVD you can make a nicely worded suggestion to Apple. We do this because we believe OS 10.9.5 is the last version to run iMovie HD 06 with no issuesFWIW there is a hacked version of iMovie HD 6 that works fine with all systems tip to High Sierra. All that was done was to change all occurrences of 6.0.4 to 6.5.1 in the Info.plist file inside iMovie application package. It can be downloaded from the lower right hand corner of this webpage:I've run iDVD 6.0.4 without issue on Mavericks and earlier.

When we got into Sierra and later that's when issues began cropping up. Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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