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Navigating Your Project with the Map
Now that you have the main menu’s menu button label squared away for
the moment, you should take a look to see where that menu button cur-
rently leads.
1 At the bottom of the iDVD window, click the Map View button.
iDVD displays a navigation map of the project. In the map, the main
menu, each submenu, and the movies they lead to are displayed as boxes
with connecting lines so that you can see which ones are connected to
which. For example, the Bhutan menu (marked with a folder icon by its
title) links to the the ATS – Bhutan (Final for DVD) menu, which is linked
to a Play Movie item and a Scenes 1-5 menu.
The Play Movie item is labeled with the name of the menu button that
leads to it and is marked with a clapboard icon, which indicates that it’s a
movie. The Scenes 1-5 menu is a chapters submenu which, in turn, links
to five movies; the menu buttons on the chapters submenu are labeled
with the names that the chapter markers were given in iMovie.
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NOTE
The five movies connected to the chapters submenu are actually
one single movie. Each button on the chapters submenu points to a spe-
cific time in the movie. Clicking a chapters button plays the movie starting
at that time.
2 On the toolbar below the map, drag the slider a third of the way to the left.
The map changes size so that you can see more of the items without scrolling.
You can also change the orientation of the map with the buttons
at the left side of the map toolbar.
NOTE
If iDVD spots a potential problem with a menu, a yellow caution
icon appears on the menu in the map. A help tag appears that describes
the problem when you place your pointer over the caution icon. If you
have a menu with an empty drop zone, iDVD warns you about it.
Now you’re going to use the map to navigate your iDVD project.
3 Double-click the ATS – Bhutan (Final for DVD) menu.
The ATS – Bhutan (Final for DVD) menu appears in the iDVD window.
When you double-click an item in the navigation menu, iDVD displays
that item in its window.
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Now that you’re here, you can change the title label at the bottom of the
menu to something better.
4 At the bottom of the menu, double-click the large ATS – Bhutan (Final for
DVD) text label, and then type Bhutan Movie.
Unlike a menu button, you can double-click a text label on a menu to edit it.
5 Change the font size of the label to 48.
Once the label becomes shorter you can see the left arrow menu button,
which takes you back to the main menu.
6 Click the left arrow menu button. This button is a standard part of the
submenu and is not easily editable; a single click takes you back to the
main menu.
You can make such a button editable if you drag it slightly so that
it shows a selection rectangle.
7 Choose File > Save (Command-S).
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