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About iDVD themes

iDVD comes with many beautifully designed themes that give the menus in your project a professional look. You can use one of these themes as is, or, using one of the iDVD themes as a starting point, you can customize and create your own theme. You can then save this theme as a favorite so you can use it for other iDVD projects.

When you choose a theme, menu backgrounds, button styles, text formatting, and even opening animations and audio are applied automatically to your project.

All iDVD themes include a group, or “family,” of menus that use a unified set of design elements but different layouts. To see all the menu styles included with the theme, click the triangle next to the theme master in the Themes pane.

A typical theme family includes layouts for the main menu of a project, the scene selection menu, and an “extras” menu. You can apply these menu styles to your project in any way you want. For example, you can apply the main menu style to all menus in your project, or the scene selection menu style to the main menu. There are no restrictions. You can also mix and match themes within the same project, using the main menu style from one theme and the scene selection style from another theme, for example.

Some themes contain either stationary or dynamic “drop zones,” sections of a menu that you can customize by adding slideshows, movies, or still images to them. Dynamic drop zones move around the menu rather than staying in one position.

Themes provide an easy way to make your DVD projects look great, and they are easy to use.

All the iDVD themes support both standard and widescreen video.

You can also create a “themeless” project in iDVD. For information, see Related Topics below.

Related Topics

Choosing an iDVD theme

Creating a DVD without a theme

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