Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, iMac Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support. Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu; Apple; Shopping Bag +. Unfortunately, iDVD is discontinued from Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8 (Mountain Lion). IDVD is also unavailable on Mac OS X 10.9. Although DVD is not as popular as before, it's really an easy and convenient way to bring together taken photos and iMovie video to a removable medium so you can either mail to friends and family or share with them in the. He is the author of both editions of Making a Movie with iMovie and iDVD: Visual QuickPro ject Guid e, and he wrote all of the previous editions of this book. Jeff is also managing editor of TidBITS (www.tidbits.com), the weekly electronic newsletter on Mac technology, and is the Mac co-columnist for the Seattle Times.

Q:I filmed footage on a mini DV tape and then put the footage on my Mac. I now have the footage on a DVD, in which it plays back on iDVD. I want the footage to go onto iMovie so that I can edit it. But when I drag the footage into iMovie, it says: 'The file will not be imported. It is not compatible with iMovie.' What I have to do to be able to make DVD playable in iMovie?

A: In order to import the contents of a DVD into iMovie, you need to rip DVD movie to iMovie supported formats first, like MPEG-4 (MP4, M4V), MPEG-2, DV, HDV, MOV, AVCHD. So a DVD to iMovie converter is necessary, which could help you decrypt DVD files to iMovie (iMovie '11) on Mac for editing.

Based on different demand cases, namely importing commercial or uncommercial DVDs to iMovie, there are two DVD ripper freeware to get DVD movies in iMovie friendly formats, so as to import to iMovie for editing.

Warm Prompt: Ripping and converting DVD discs to iMovie for editing is suggested for personal use rather than commercial use. Please abide by your local or country DVD copyright protection law. Do Not harm others' interests.

Part 2: How to Use iDVD to Burn A DVD

Step 1: Create A New Project.

Click the iDVD application icon in the Dock, and Click the 'Create a NewProject' button in the opening dialog, shown below. Or you can also choose Magic iDVD and select a theme, movies, photos etc. Meanwhile, choosing OneStep DVD will copy clips footages from camera to a DVD. Check iDVD supported formats if necessary.

Step 2: Set the Encoding Quality.

Go to iDVD > Preferences > Project to set the encoding quality, DVD type and video mode. It will set the video mode for your region. NTSC is used in North America, South America, Japan, South Korea, and PAL is mostly used in Australia, Western Europe, and others. Check out how to convert PAL DVD for burning. Best Performance mode will encode quickly with nice quality. High Quality option is for larger video encoding and compress data to a disc with good video quality. It takes longer to burn onto your disc. Professional Quality is the option for users who require best quality possible. It is the slowest mode, so we don't recommend this mode on the iDVD guide for users who don't want to spend too much time.

Step 3: Choose A Theme for Your DVD

Click on the Themes button at the bottom and choose a theme for your DVD menu, as shown below. You can save the custom theme for future uses.

Step 4: Add Movies or Movie Folders

Click the Media button at the bottom of the window or the Movies button at the top right pane to add movie or clips, photos, folders to the project. You can add more than one movie title at the same time. Or you can directly drag a movie thumbnail to the drag zone on the left of the iDVD window.

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Step 5: Add Slideshow

Click Add button at the bottom left corner of the Window and choose Add Sideshow to add slideshow. You can also use this Mac DVD burner to make slideshow. iDVD supports to load more than one pictures and even a whole photo albums from iPhoto album or hard disk on your computer. You can arrange these pictures, delete them, add soundtracks and transitions to your images.

Step 6: Add Transition Between Images

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Click Transition button to add transition between images. You can click the Preview button to see which transition is your favorite.

Step 7: Add Soundtrack

Click the Audio button at the top right of the Media pane, select a song from your iTunes library, and drag it to the Audio well.

Step 8: Add Menu Text and Customize It

Click Project, Add Text, drag the text to the place below the title. Press Command + (x) to open the Text Info iwndow and edit text color etc.

Step 9: Add Transitions to Buttons

Choose Edit on the main menu > Select All buttons and edit button text, shape, image and add transitions to buttons.

Step 10: Burn Video to DVD on macOS

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After the editing is finished, you can burn these projects to a DVD disc for backup or playing on TV, computer with disc drive. Preview your projects to make sure they are ready before you continue to learn how to use iDVD to burn a DVD. Then choose a media type to burn a disc. The recommended type is DVD-R that is playable on most DVD players for Mac.

Click the Burn button, insert a blank disc into your computer's SuperDrive for Mac or Mac external hard drive - if your hard drive is new, learn how to easily format hard drive on Mac before using. And it will start to burn projects from iMovie, iTunes library, hard disk etc. to DVD. The DVD burning speed depends on the your computer performance, the video size. If you want to burn a DVD to DVD using iDVD, scroll down to study the iDVD tutorial on how to import a DVD for latering burning into a blank DVD disc.