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Creating a music DVD with photos

You can create a music DVD that has no movies at all, but instead includes just your favorite songs that accompany a slideshow of images. For example, you can create a DVD of great music, complete with your favorite photos, for a party and play it in the DVD player connected to your TV. You can also play it in your computer’s DVD player.

To create a Music DVD with photos:

Step 1

Create a new iDVD project.

After you create the project, the main menu appears in the iDVD window. Double-click the title to highlight the text, and type a new title if you want.

Step 2

Click the Media button and then Photos to access the Photos pane.

Step 3

Drag an album of images to the menu, which creates a slideshow.

You can also click the Add button (shown below), and choose Add Slideshow. Then you can drag a photo album to the button to create a slideshow.

Image of the Add button
Step 4

Double-click the slideshow button, slowly, to highlight the text, and type a new name.

Step 5

Double-click the slideshow button to open the slideshow editor.

Step 6

Click the Audio button at the top of the Media pane, and drag a playlist from the Audio pane to the audio well (shown below) in the slideshow editor.

Image of the audio well in the slideshow editor
Step 7

Click Settings, and select the “Loop slideshow” checkbox.

Step 8

Click the Return button to go back to the main menu.

If you want, you can edit the menu further by adding background images, adding images to any drop zones, and so on.

For more information about creating slideshows and adding sound to them, see Related Topics below.

Instead of using several photos, you can create a slideshow that uses just a single image that stays onscreen while your music plays. For example, the image could simply display your playlist. To create a playlist, use a graphics application to create a file that contains the song titles, and save it in JPEG (.jpg) format. Then add just the JPEG file to the slideshow, and no other images. When you insert the DVD into your player, click the slideshow button on the main menu. The playlist appears and remains onscreen while the music plays.

When you make a music DVD, you are bound by the same size restrictions as you are for any other DVD. Make sure you check DVD capacity in the Project info window (choose Project > Project Info) to monitor how much room you have available.

Related Topics

Creating a slideshow in iDVD

Adding sound to a slideshow

Setting movies and slideshows to loop

Starting a new project in iDVD

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