iDVD-5 - burning large movies

[gilhouse]

How do I burn a fat imovie project - over 30 Gigs - onto a DVD? I have an emac with Tiger and ilife 5.
thanks
-Gilhouse

[Buzz]

You need to section it and break it apart to fit on DVD space 4.5 - 8.5gb per disk. Basically.. you need to make 4-7 separate movies, not one big movie.

[gilhouse]

Thanks Buzz.

So, there's no way under the sun to burn and compress big imovie projects to one or two DVD's...? How does Hollywood do it, then? The project I have is only about 2 hours, and some hollywood movies are over 2 hours and have a buncha extra crap with it.

thanks

-g

[Big Jim]

Assuming this is non commercial video, i.e. not encrypted, then Roxio's Popcorn can compress and burn whereas Toast cannot and iApps can only compress for web streaming not burning.

[gilhouse]

Assuming this is non commercial video, i.e. not encrypted, then Roxio's Popcorn can compress and burn whereas Toast cannot and iApps can only compress for web streaming not burning.

Sweet! I'll check out Roxio's Popcorn, then. And you think it'll be able to compress 36 gigs onto one 4.7 gig dvd?
And yes, it's a home movie.

-G

[Big Jim]

Well I'm not sure about that size, but it kinda depends what codec the video is in because it will be re-encoded to mp2 before it burns to DVD, or mp4 (I Think) for HD video. Also depends wether you have a dual layer DVD drive and disc.