iDVD Icon

If iDVD performance is sluggish

If you have a complex project that contains large images, an autoplay movie, more than one movie, or a lot of button transitions, and if you keep motion turned on while you are working on your project, you might experience slow performance.

Here are ways to improve iDVD performance:

Consider resizing large, high-resolution slideshow images to 720 x 480 pixels for standard projects and 854 x 480 pixels for widescreen before you add them to your project.

Large images can slow iDVD performance. (The performance of your burned DVD is unaffected by image size.)

Make sure motion is turned off while you’re working on your project if your project has complex dynamic drop zones or motion menus. To turn motion on or off, click the Motion button (shown below).

Image of the Play button

Turn off background encoding if you are using the Best Performance encoding setting. To turn it off, choose Advanced > “Encode in Background.”

The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected.

Was this page helpful? Send feedback.