IDVD is a program for authoring, or designing, a DVD. IDVD works well with iMovie (and also with iTunes and iPhoto). Secure vault gun safe instructions. IDVD is based on the concept of themes (menu designs for your DVD), with differing background images, button styles, fonts, music, and animations. Goto ~/Applications/ and move iDVD from Application folder to desktop and goto. 10 Copy these folders to ~/library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes.

I have an old Macbook with Snow Leopard on it, and a newer Macbook Air with Yosemite, and a newer Macbook Pro with Mavericks. The old Macbook is taking about 4 hours to encode videos to burn to a DVD disc using the highest quality setting, so I wonder if I install it on the Macbook Pro, whether it can be much faster. However, since iDVD is discontinued since Lion, there might be 2 ways to install it on the Macbook Pro or Macbook Air and I wonder if they will work. • Buy iLife 11 (produced in 2011) from Amazon and install on Mavericks and Yosemite.

But I wonder how compatible it will be, and whether the installation may write some outdated material over the newer, more current files (of the OS). • Simply copy the iDVD app from the Applications folder on the Snow Leopard machine to a USB Flash drive and copy it over to the Applications folder of the Mavericks and Yosemite machine. But is there any side effects of doing so? Often, the way general users install apps on the Mac is by download a.dmg file, and double click to see a virtual disc, and then just drag the app (which is actually a folder) to the Applications folder. So if I do the method (2) here, isn't the same as the.dmg way of installing an app? IDVD still runs on Yosemite. I haven't tested to see whether it still actually functions correctly, as I have no DVD video player to view the result on.

Edit 2017: This method apparently still works on Sierra, but I haven't tested. I would go for the 'sneaker-net' method of install copy the app to a USB key & carry it over to one of the other machines. Will take 2 minutes to discover if that works. Edit I trawled my boot drive for associated items for iDVD It appears that the themes, which would be installed by the installer live in /Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes & ~/Library/Application Support/iDVD/Installed Themes In folders by version, iDVD 4, 5, 6, 7 etc It would be a simple-enough task to carry these over in the same way.

There is a new web site () on which 2 free iDVD themes are available for free download. Ntoe the 'z' at the end of iThemez in the url. Both themes have animated graphics and drop zones. One of the themes (called Slot Machine) includes an animated first-play graphic that shows a slot-machine running and hitting the jackpot. When the jackpot is hit, the first-play movie switches to the regular theme background in which the windows in the slot machine become drop zones. You only see this when you use Preview in iDVD.

The other free theme celebrates July 4th with moving graphics and a single drop zone. The themes download as installers and place the themes in the favorites folder (HD>Library>iDVD>Favorites). The themes are designed for Tiger and iDVD5 but for me they also worked with Panther.

The themes are really well done and they are free.