

The call quality (depending on your internet signal) and additional features like conversation history, conference calling and secure file transfer are excellent. Skype uses P2P technology to connect users on a multitude of platforms including desktop, mobile and tablet.

Users can also call landlines and mobiles at competitive rates using Skype credit, premium accounts and subscriptions. It allows users to text, video and voice call over the internet. Once they have finished encoding it will allow you to burn them much more quickly.Skype is the most popular free voice-over IP and instant messaging service globally. You can go to the Project Info page under the project menu, and there is little graph showing you when all videos have finished encoding. Thankfully this is the default setting.Īlso, if you check ‘Best performance’ it will encode all the videos in the background. The bottom line is, if you want the highest quality video, check Best Performance. ‘Professional Quality’ is somewhere in the middle, so it is best for videos between one hour and two hours long. It gives you the smallest file size so allows you to fit up to 2 hours on one DVD ‘High Quality’ actually means worst quality. It gives you the largest file sizes so you can only fit one hour on a DVD but it will be the best quality. ‘Best Performance’ actually means highest quality.

The only thing that I should point out is that the names Apple have given to the ‘quality’ settings (under the Project info menu) are stupid. IDVD Is pretty intuitive, you should work it out yourself. IDVD comes with a series of built-in ‘templates’ for the opening screen of the DVD and the menus.Īfter you have chosen a template you just add in the movies that you want, name them, and burn the DVD. Here is a picture of the iDVD opening screen.Ĭlick on ‘Create a New Project’ and away you go. It even works in the latest version of OS X, macOS Sierra.
APPLE IDVD FOR MAC HOW TO
You can read about this and how to get around it here. If you do buy the iLife DVD, it probably won’t install because Apple put a use-by date on the installer.
APPLE IDVD FOR MAC UPDATE
Apple has an update from the Apple downloads webpage ( here) that will update it to 7.1.2. Version 7.0 comes with iLife 09, iLife 10 and iLife 11. The lastest version of iDVD is version 7.1.2. For example I just searched on eBay and found a copy here: If you have never owned a copy of iLife (which contains iDVD) then you will need to buy a secondhand copy of iLife. All I needed to do was copy the iDVD application from my applications folder and the iDVD themes folder from Library/Application Support and it was up and running in no time. Thankfully I was able to go through some old backups and find a copy.
APPLE IDVD FOR MAC INSTALL
I recently did a fresh install of OS X Sierra so when I went to use iDVD it was no longer on my computer either. iDVD was a part of the iLife package that was bundled with new iMacs. Apple still sell a SuperDrive which can burn DVDs but ‘iDVD’ is no longer available from Apple. Thankfully this difficult task was simplified by iDVD. Here’s how to get hold of it and what it can do.īurning a DVD is a complex task. My son recently played in a piano concert and he wanted to burn a DVD of the concert for his grandfather. We live in a post-DVD world now but there are still occasions where you may need to burn a DVD.
