
6
Once you’ve decided on a menu, iDVD gives you several quick ways to personalize it.
A Drop Zone is an area into which you can drag and drop an image, a movie, or a
slideshow. Drop Zones are purely aesthetic, but they’re darn fun to play with.
To add media to a Drop Zone, click on the Media button underneath the right panel to
access the Media Browser. Browse to the media you want to add, click on the icon, then
drag and drop. You’ll know when you’re toggling over the Drop Zone, because a yellow
and black border will appear around the area.
To delete media from a Drop Zone, click on the Zone, and move the mouse slightly off
the area. A little puff of air will appear to indicate that you’ve deleted the media from the
Zone. Deleting media from a Drop Zone does not delete it from your computer.
To ensure that you’ve completely filled in every Drop Zone in the menu, a new feature of
iDVD ’08 is the Drop Zone Editor. To see this handy tool, click on the DROP ZONE
EDITOR icon (fifth from the left), which looks like a dotted-line square with an arrow
going into it. From this, you’ll see a thumbnail of the menu theme as well as thumbnails
of the Drop Zones.
Several of the menus have audio built in. You can keep it or you can change it. If you
choose a menu that doesn’t have a soundtrack but want to add one, you can do that, too.
Changing and adding audio to a menu is the same process:
1. Upload your track (or playlist) into iTunes.
2. Select the Media button below the right panel and click on Audio at the top of the
panel. Browse to the track or playlist.
3. Click on the icon beside the track (or playlist) and drag it from the menu into a
blank space. Do not drag it into a Drop Zone.
If you do not want music to play in your menu, you can display the Drop Zone Editor and
click on the little volume icon on the Menu box (it’s a little tricky to see) or you can use
the Inspector Window.
Kommentare zu diesen Handbüchern