Apple iDVD 5 - Manual (Page 29)

4 To change the background music for the menu, drag an audio file from the Audio pane
of the Media Browser to the Audio well in the Settings pane.
Create a Slideshow
You can use iDVD to create a slideshow from a group of pictures and add a soundtrack
to it. You can even make the original picture files available to copy from the DVD.
To add a slideshow:
1 Open the menu you created in “Add a Submenu and Replace Its Background,” above.
2 Click the Slideshow button at the bottom of the iDVD window. A button named “My
Slideshow” appears on the menu.
3 To change the name of the button, select the text on it and type a title. In the
illustration after step 11 below, the new title is “More Photos.”
4 To make the button an image button, click Settings in the Customize drawer and
choose a button shape from the Style pop-up menu.
5 Double-click the button to open the slideshow editor.
6 Drag a photo album or a group of pictures from the Photos pane in the Media Browser
to the slideshow editor.
7 Choose Droplet from the Transition pop-up menu to set the transition between photos
in your slideshow.
8 To set a musical soundtrack for the slideshow, drag a playlist or a group of songs from
the Audio pane in the Media Browser to the Audio well in the slideshow editor to add it
to your slideshow. Notice that the slideshow duration changes, depending on how
long the music is. Hold the pointer over the Audio well to see how long the music is.
The Slide Duration pop-up menu is automatically set to “Fit to Audio.”
9 To add the original versions of your slideshow photos to the DVD-ROM portion of the
disc, select “Add original photos on DVD-ROM. ” Viewers will be able to copy the photos
to their hard disks from the DVD.
10 Click the Return button to exit the slideshow editor and return to the previous menu.
Did You Know?—Creating Custom Themes
Once you have set the background, music, text, and buttons the way you like, you
can save your customized menu as a custom theme. A custom theme appears in the
Themes pane of the Customize drawer, and you can select it to use for future
projects, just as you would with any theme.
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