DVD burning software

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After recently purchasing an imac and creating an imovie for my graddaughters softball team, I learned that imac no longer bundles iDVD on new macs. Could someone recommend software I can purchase that works well with imac and is simple to use. I don't need anything fancy like Toast. I only need to burn multible DVD's from mpeg4's created in imovie that will play in a typical DVD player.
 

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Because of the transcoding that is required to create standard DVDs, Toast may actually be a good fit for that purpose.

There are some freeware alternatives like Burn, but it's not nearly as robust as Toast and something tells me it doesn't have the ability to transcode into DVD format on its own.
 
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I bought an iMac just before Christmas 2011, had the same irritation about the missing idvd. A friend that had recommended Apple to me called Apple Support and gently chided them about the missing idvd, we were told they had ilife with idvd $50.00 I received the disk 3 days later. I now have idvd.
 
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I tried Burn. Big mistake. I created 12 DVD's all of which either skipped or wouldn't play at all in standard DVD players. I was also told by Apple dealer that idvd was available at the app store. It wasn't. I will check for the ilfe package or end up with toast. Thanks for your input.
 
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That is odd. New iMac last month sure has iDVD 7.1.2 in Applications. Have to say never used it, always use Toast Titanium 11.
 

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