Apple iDVD for Mac7.1.2

Works fine overall for me in SL 10.68. Am glad they fixed the file re-linking issue. I've always loved iDVD for years now. Makes a decent stab at doing a pretty home video menu (well families are always impressed no matter what you do) but it's pretty simple and makes a relatively professional job (minus the translucent Apple logo in the bottom right to give away the source being a minor point). There's still the little niggle though of it not fully understanding Anamorphic Widescreen DV. Sometimes you still have to manually change it on your TV (maybe it's the flavour of H264 codec I'm using out of Compressor I don't know.) It's no DVD Studio but for a quick & slick-looking professional DVD wrap it cworks, although I certainly don't claim to be an expert but overall I'm still very happy with it in an iMovie sort of way. It is what it is despite some of the snide remarks below.

Hmmm - this requires 10.6.6, which is the OS X update I passed on due to privacy concerns with the App Store.

My grandma still uses a dvd player so thanks for the update.

Idvd is a piece of crap, took a beautiful movie and made a dvd worthy of early low quality vhs. Where is this apple quality I always heard about, you should see the dvd that my windows 7 laptop created, outstanding.

1. I have iDVD 6.0.3 which came with my mbp. Tried to download 7.0.1. Could not open it because it could not find qualifying app. Why not? Do I have to pay $100> 2.I also tried to import jpegs from my western digital external hard drive to iDVD 6.0.3. Mbp saw the wd, but would not import. Is problem related to: 1. 21.0 above or 2. that the jpgs went from my camera to a mini-PC to WD or 3. my incompetence and unfamiliarity with iDVD?

Go to www.apple.com/support There are active forums there for iDVD.

Hi all, I have iDVD6 (i think it's 6 anyway)on my new MacBook. I created a movie (from photographs) in iMovie and then burned it to Disc (DVD-R x 8) using iDVD. The Audio files (songs) I added so that specific beat patterns would coincide with image transition have gone out of synch. It plays ok in iMovie and also in iDVD but the hard copy (the disc)when played in different DVD players has visual and audio out of synch. Incredibly frustrating since I spent ages making the present (it also took forever to burn). Does anyone have a solution for this... I'm in a hurry: it's a birthday present. Thanks G.

I don't know why everyone is always having problems with the iLife Apps, and everyone is always complaining about how thay can't do this, it won't do that. I have been using iLife since 1.0 and I have never had any problems with it, it has worked flawlessly since day one. I have made 2 feature films with iLife and never had a single problem. I'm running a 800mhz iMac G4, and I couln't be happyer with iLife!

idvd is great!?! it´s easy to use. drag and drop is wonderful. but - it´s a consumerapp. why? 1.the picture is bad. 2.don´t try something else than 4:3 format. idvd will scale it anyway to 4:3. 3.slooooow. after rendering a 90 minute film there is this anoying rainbowball. g4 dp 1.8 ghz ram 1024 mb 10.3.8

Idvd 5 is a great app...if everything works right. Exporting from imovie is no problem. Drop zones are cool. If there was a way to have more control over the drop zones, it would be better. My only gripe so far is it going out of sync when viewing the final burned product. Everything in the preview windows are in sync, but when I burn the dvd, the final product looks like a poorly dubbed Kung Fu flick. It maybe my computer. I have dual 1.8 G5 w/ 2gigs ram.

I've been using Macs for nearly 20 years. I've made hundreds of DVD's using iMovie and iDVD. They are very nice programs, but they have serious problems. You can work around the problems, but I pity the unsuspecting beginner trying to get good results with this software. Many of them throw their arms up in the air and give up (their comments can be read on the Apple forums--before the admins delete their posts). They're the lucky ones. Others succeed in making DVD's but discover later on that their trust in Apple software caused them to lose time, money, and precious videos. I've been there! The most serious problems are: 1. Quality. Several books on iMovie and iDVD have been published. The authors claim that there is no noticeable loss in quality when encoding up to 90 minutes in iDVD 3 or when using Best Performance in later versions. This is nonsense. If there is any fast motion, the quality is terrible. This problem is easily resolved. Use iDVD 4.0 or later and use Best Quality for anything over an hour. If there is fast motion, try not to go much over 90 minutes per DVD. 2. Synch problems. After you finish editing in iMovie, you should select all of the clips on the timeline and extract audio. Otherwise, you are likely to get synch problems. Although user errors can cause synch problems, there is definitely a software bug that also causes it, and it should have been fixed by now. This step takes valuable time and disk space. It takes about 15 minutes to extract the audio from an 80 minute video. This is very annoying when you are trying to get work done. 3. Non-playing DVD's. I first noticed this problem with iDVD 4.0.1, but I recently had it happen with 4.0. You burn a DVD that will play in your computer but not in a DVD player. Many people were up in arms about this and other problems on one of the Apple forums. Their posts were deleted. Apple apparently wants to hush this and other problems with iLife 5. Fortunately, there is a work-around, but it took a couple of weeks to figure it out (during which my DVD projects had to sit in limbo). Go into System Preferences and set up a user that is only permitted to run iDVD. Then burn your DVD's using this account.

iDVD 4.0.1 remains plagued by a long-burn problem that Apple has yet to acknowledge or fix. Attemps to burn DVDs of even moderate playing length (20 minutes or more) results in iDVD running interminably without burning anything, sometimes for up to 14 hours. iDVD appears to be OK for simple & short kids' projects, but is not serious sofware.

Need Advice: What kind of DVD-R do I need for a powerbook G4 with the superdrive? Sony 4.7GB, 1x-4x, didn't work for me.

DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO BURN A DVD USING IDVD, BURNING TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE (PLEXTOR)? I HAVE CREATED A A MOVIE IN IDVD AND REVIEWED IT... HOWEVER, I CANT GET IT TO BURN TO THE PLEXTOR. I DO NOT HAVE A "SUPERDRIVE" AND THATS WHY IAM USING THE PLEXTOR.

I have a G5 and i cant get IDVD to burn one 40 min movie. It gives me blue/white diagonal lines as though its loading or waiting for more than 10 hrs, is this weird.

Well, I just tried it, and it still took me 6+ hours to record a DVD that ran about an hour and 45 minutes. I couldn't tell any difference between this update and the previous version. My non-updated version worked fine. At least I know I'm not the only one who waits forever for the DVD to burn. Then again, maybe the "quality" setting requires a whole lot more than "performance." Plus, this does integrate DVD Studio Pro components, so perhaps it's a more intensive piece of software.

I 2nd that, never had a problem taking the family video and converting it. Sync is perfect. Have already done about a dozen different DVD's. Between version 3 and 4.

An absolutely worthless program. Audio and sound go out of sync as the movie progresses. Starts out okay, but after 8 minutes or so, the sounds don't match up with the lips, and the problem just gets worse and more noticeable. The original stream does not have this problem, only after burned to iDVD. It's not worthless. It's a great program if your movies are less than 8 minutes long. But it's not worth spending $2 to burn something to DVD if it's only 8 minutes long.

Overall this is a great piece of iLife '04 It has very realistic and useful “Hollywood” style themes. The map feature is very useful, it allows you to map out where your menus lead. This software was designed with simplicity and that what it gives…Simplicity.

Can't get still images to stick on the customized buttons. I import a chapterized quicktime movie from Premier 6.5 and when I place a still frame pict image over a button it sticks until I go to another page. When I come back the still is gone. Same thing is true of the movie toggle opportunity. Jim Held in his book says turn off the movie toggle above the button and scrub till you find a still you like. It's supposed to stay there since the movie is turned off. But it doesn't. Driving me crazy. I'm using System X Jaguar 800 Mhrz with a 120 GB external hard drive. Anybody got any ideas how to make still images stick onto customized buttons?