Apple iDVD 5 - Manual (Page 33)

Chapter 3 iDVD Tutorial 33
Check the Status Pane
You can monitor the space taken up by the various elements of your project in the
Status pane of the Customize drawer.
To check the status of your project:
m Click Customize, then click Status. Four resource meters are displayed.
• The DVD Capacity meter shows the size of your DVD, indicated as running time (the
total time for all the media and transitions) or as disc space used. Click the text to the
right of it to switch between minutes and gigabytes (GB).
• The Motion Menus meter shows the total duration of all the menus in the project. You
can have up to a total of 15 minutes of motion menus.
• The Tracks meter shows the number of tracks and slideshows you have used,
including autoplay movies and slideshows. You can have up to 99 total tracks.
• The Menus meter shows the overall number of still and motion menus used in the
project. You can have up to 99 total menus.
• The Background Encoding section shows if the movies in your project have been
encoded. If you click Burn before the movies are finished encoding, iDVD will finish
the encoding before burning the disc.
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