new Burn DVD apps vs. iDVD

As you've found there is no app that is as versatile as iDVD. Toast only burns video files and does a good job of it.

If you want to use photos and make a slideshow from them you'll need two try a different app. DVD

Maker Pro can do slideshows from image files and has a number of slideshow themes/types to choose from. It's available from the App Store. The free version puts a water mark on the projects.

am i wrong?

Yes. Because iDVD has been discontinued and unsupported for several years now and there are some themes that do not work with the later systems. iDVD also has some encoding issues which have plagued users recently.

If you go ahead and get the iLife disc be sure to get the iLife 09 disk as that's the only way you'll get all of the themes for iDVD.

Personally if I had to change and spend money now I'd look at the paid version of DVD Maker Pro @ $14.95.

I'm using the Cisdem DVD Burner to create my home DVD. You can try it.

see Klaus's article here

Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?

I'm not experienced in FCP, but early on when I supported multi-media staff on Mac it seemed like Roxio Toast was the most flexible.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/

Cisdem sent me a response saying they don't support Apple's ProRes format, which (as I understand it) is what we should choose from Share/Quality to have the Best quality export in a .mov file. Have you found this limitation to be detrimental to your DVD quality?

--Steve L.

I bought Cisdem’s dvd burner software but the dvd it created won’t mount on my imac, Windows 10, or a tv via attached dvd player. Any ideas why this result? Any tips appreciated.

—Steve L.

Did you end up with a disk with this content?

If not then you didn't create a video DVD. What is on the disk?