

You can use video from Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express and iMovie. Sprite movies, Flash tracks, MPEG-1 and MEPG-2 files. IDVD 5 will accept most QuickTime formatted material, except for: QuickTime VR movies. Aside from additional new features, the new stock Menu Themes with their animated drop zones are quite amazing, very professional indeed. I admit to be being more than just a little surprised when I launched iDVD 5 for the first time. Some of these new features have come down from iDVDs big brother, DVD Studio Pro. With each version more features have been added. IDVD still intrigues me and I have kept up with each new iteration. As time went by my customers demanded greater sophistication in their DVDs, so I switched to DVD Studio Pro 2 when it shipped. iDVD 2 added a few more features and more of my customers wanted DVDs of their projects. I would use a piece of art from the artists portfolio to replace the stock template backgrounds, added some music and produced a DVD that my customers could use. As it turned out I started using iDVD to create DVDs for some of my customers who are artists. Never a fan of VHS as a final output from Final Cut Pro I did some testing. I remember when the first version of iDVD shipped. 4.3GB of disk space required to install GarageBand, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD or 250MB to install iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie only.

Apple SuperDrive required to install iDVD.Display with at least 1024-by-768-pixel resolution.256MB of physical RAM (512MB recommended).Macintosh computer 733MHz G4 or faster required for iDVD.
