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Sorry if this has been covered before, but I did a search and was unable to find anything on this subject. Maybe my search skills need to worked on :Oops:
I have been playing around with my mini DV camera, iMovie and now iDVD. I have successfully burned a project with iDVD. What I have notice is that many of the menu items in iDVD such as preferences are grayed/inactive. I would like to adjust the quality settings but I am unable to get to the setting because of the inactive menu items. Anyone else with iDVD 08 have any experience with this.

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Ok...I figured out what was going on. I was burning the movies in iDVD using the Movie Magic option. When this is done, many of the menu items are not available. Sort of a simplified way to burn movies. It works ok, although I think the quality could be better, hence me looking for options to better the quality.

I found that when you work with the movie you want to burn using "New Project" option in iDVD, this is when all the menu options are available and you can fine tune how you want to burn your movie.

I thought I would go ahead an pass this on just in case any other Mac rookie like me stumbles on to the same issue I was having.
 

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