Apple iDVD 6 - Manual (Page 5)

Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD 5
Anatomy of a DVD
If you’ve ever viewed a professionally produced DVD, then you’re familiar with the basic
concept of a DVD.
A DVD can contain a variety of content:
 Movies and video clips
 Photographs and other still images
 Documents or other files that can be copied onto another computer
The process of creating a DVD consists of gathering all the content you want to show
your viewers, and then designing a way for them to get access to it.
Menus
The first thing you see on your television or computer screen when you insert a DVD
into an optical drive or DVD player is called the
main menu . And when you create your
own DVD, that menu is the first thing you’ll build.
The menu can be a simple black screen with the contents of the DVD listed, or it can
have still or moving background images with clickable text or graphic buttons, as in
the example below.
Navigation
When you click a button on a DVD menu, something happens: A movie or song starts
to play, a slideshow appears, or you see another menu (called a
submenu ). A submenu
is simply another way to lead your viewers to more content. You can have many
submenus on your DVD.
When you design your own menus, you’ll add buttons that take the viewer wherever
you want them to go.
Buttons