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The drop zone in the editor shows a small version of the picture, and the
main menu displayed above it shows a larger version of the same picture
in the menu’s drop zone.
NOTE
Drop zones can contain either a movie, a single picture, or a
group of pictures that are displayed as a slideshow.
5 At the bottom of the iDVD window, click the Drop Zone button again.
The drop zone editor goes away and the main menu again fills the left
pane of the iDVD window.
Editing the Main Menu
As you may have noticed, the Travel theme plays a bouncy clarinet tune when
you click the Motion menu button. You’ll change this music and make some
other minor adjustments as well.
1 With nothing selected in the main menu, choose View > Show Inspector.
The semi-transparent Inspector window appears showing the Menu
Info Inspector. The Inspector window will show a different inspector for
each item you select in the current menu. When nothing is selected, the
Inspector gives you options for modifying characteristics of the entire
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menu—in this case, the project’s main menu. The Loop Duration slider
in the Inspector’s Background is set all the way to the end, meaning the
entire audio file will play when the motion menu is playing.
2 On your desktop, open the iLife09_Book_Files folder and the Lesson_17
folder inside of it, and then drag the
BhutanMenuMusic.m4a file to the
Audio well in the Inspector.
When the motion menu plays, it will play the complete contents of the
music file. You’ll fix that next.
3 Drag the Loop Duration slider left to the 28-second mark.
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As you drag, a help tag above the slider shows the current time setting of
the slider. If your menu has movies in its drop zones, the slider also con-
trols how long they’ll play. The duration slider shows the duration of the
longest media in the menu, whether in a drop zone or background audio
or movie.
4 In the Audio section of the Inspector, slide the main volume slider to the
left until it’s above the first tick mark.
You can choose to showcase the audio by raising the volume, which is bet-
ter for complete songs, or to make it into something more like an ambient
sound by lowering it, which is more suitable for short sound loops.
5 At the bottom of the iDVD window, click the Motion menu button, listen
to the music play, and then click the Motion menu button again.
6 In the Buttons section of the Inspector, click the Highlight swatch.
A Colors window appears. The button highlight color shows you which
menu button is currently selected when you view the DVD; you can change
the highlight color specified by the menu’s theme to a different one.
7 Use the Colors window to pick a different menu button highlight color,
such as a medium green.
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