Some of Apple’s iDVD themes offer great visual backgrounds but weak audio. Others provide terrific sound but so-so text. Some create a nearly perfect package, while others seem broken beyond repair. Fortunately, in the end, it doesn’t matter, because iDVD lets you adapt themes to your taste and save your creations as Favorites themes.

Favorites let you move beyond canned themes and presets to create truly customized DVD menus. You can change the fonts and colors on buttons and titles, adjust the length of a looping background video, move buttons around the screen and change their styles, move text around the screen, substitute new background art or background patterns, replace or remove the audio loop that plays when the main menu is onscreen, and much more. Let this chapter be your guide.