Q: Good dvd creator app for iMac

Let us know how it worked and maybe a screenshot of the menu it offers.

Well, having problems with dvdstyler...but it could just be my lack of tech ability.

Maybe others can get it to work.

Hugh

Here are a couple of screenshots. I couldn't get it to burn a dvd, but others have reported it works in Yosemite.

Hug

I can only hope that Apple will includes this product in the future release of Photo or in a version of iMovie. It would be a shame if this product just dissappears.

Don't hold your breath.  I've got a volume on an external HD that has Mavericks on it that I will boot into for iDVD once it becomes incompatible with Yosemite or the next OS X to come along.  

It would be a shame if this product just dissappears.

Please leave feedback here.  It will be read by Apple.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

The next time I see Tim, I will recommend that you be made Executive Vice President in charge of strategic long-range planning.

As a recent convertee to iMac from Windows, am overall disappointed with the lack of good software to process photos and videos and create slideshows and, as I have just found out, save video files on disk.  They appear to be regressing badly and quite honestly I wish I would have stayed with Windows. 

Thanks to your link, I have provided my feedback to Apple.  Thanks for your input on this forum

There is plenty of good software for those purposes, they just don't happen in many cases to be from Apple.

Graphic Converter for processing photos (a lot cheaper than Photoshop).

iMovie 6 (part of iLife 6) for video editing. iDVD for creating video DVDs.

As for slideshows:

There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto (see this:  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2423 ), iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).

If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!

Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:

http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php

(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico:  http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)

Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.

Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie  as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie 6 where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast,  for burning.

You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!

To simply create a slide show in iDVD 7 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1089

Preparing images for iDVD slideshows:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5452

What a wealth of information - really appreciated.  I have no problem for paying for good software (although not as much as Final Cut costs - too expensive for just a hobby.  PowerDirector for windows did all this so easily, I wish they would put out a Mac version. 

Thanks so much!!!