
iDVD Addendum—Chapter 1
6
Using OneStep DVD
Sometimes you may want to just burn some
footage to a disc, without dealing with pretty
graphics or navigation. Film productions
frequently create DVD “dailies” of each day’s
footage for the director or producers to
review; wedding videographers sometimes
offer the raw footage to the married couple,
handed over at the end of the day. iDVD’s
OneStep DVD feature simply grabs video
from your camcorder and burns it to disc,
with no menu navigation or frills. When you
play it in a DVD player, the movie starts play-
ing right away.
To create a OneStep DVD:
1. Connect your camcorder to your Mac
and make sure it’s loaded with the tape
containing your footage.
2.
Choose OneStep DVD from the File
menu, or press the OneStep DVD button
on iDVD’s title screen (Figure 1.2).
3.
Insert a recordable DVD disc into your
computer.
4.
Sit back and wait. iDVD rewinds the
tape, imports the footage, encodes it, and
burns it to the disc (Figure 1.3).
5.
If you want another copy made after
iDVD finishes, insert another disc.
Otherwise, click Done.
4 Tips
n OneStep DVD imports footage until it
reaches the end of the tape or the end of
the footage. If you want just a portion of
the tape recorded, press the Stop button
in iDVD or on the camcorder.
n You can’t start importing footage in the
middle of a tape using OneStep DVD. If
you want to burn just a portion of your
video, import it into iMovie first.
Figure 1.2 If no iDVD project is currently open, start a
OneStep DVD project from the title screen.
Figure 1.3 OneStep DVD automatically rewinds the
camera’s tape, imports the footage (top), and burns
a DVD disc (bottom).
Using OneStep DVD
OneStep DVD Data Location
When you use the OneStep DVD feature,
iDVD doesn’t create a project that you can
go edit later. All OneStep DVD files are
stored in a temporary, invisible directory
on your startup drive. But you can change
the location: open iDVD’s preferences,
click the Advanced icon, and choose a new
temporary folder location (say, a larger
hard disk) at the bottom of the window.
Supplement for iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide by Jeff Carlson.
Copyright © 2009. Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press.
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