Trying to burn large IMovie onto DVD !!

Have a new IMac, and made 3 large movies in Imovie (30 minutes long), and am having a terrible time burning them onto DVD, so my elderly parents can view them on their DVD player! Converted them to Quicktime, and burned them onto a DVD-R (4.7GB) DVD, which is enough room, but it only burned half of the movie onto it... Am I using the wrong DVD? Is there a conversion/optimizing trick I don't know about? Using SmartConverter, and then IDVD....Help!

If you are using iDVD, then go into iDVD's Project Menu>Project Info and choose a Dual Layer disc in the DVD Type bar. You will, of course, have to use a blank Dual Layer dvd. As your movie is only 4.6Gb, you could change the encoding quality to get it to fit on a standard disc. I've done this before without any noticable difference in video quality.

Mealymoo46 said:

Have a new IMac, and made 3 large movies in Imovie (30 minutes long), and am having a terrible time burning them onto DVD, so my elderly parents can view them on their DVD player!

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Are you using an external DVD burner?...since no "new iMac's" have internal optical drives.

- Nick

BUrning Imovie to DVD

Yes, I bought an external DVD burner when I purchased the computer....

Yes, I am....