It even works in the latest version of OS X, macOS Sierra.
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 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. 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.