[MacDV] Video compression

[Erica Sadun]

>I'm sure this has been answered, but since I just joined the list, here goes:
>I imported video from Christmas into iMovie. Then I played with it, 
>added fade-ins, titles, etc. I "exported" it to iDVD. Then I tried 
>to burn a DVD in Toast (newest version, for Mac OS X). The message 
>is that the movie is too long for the DVD -- over 6 gigs and the DVD 
>is 4.6.  It's only about 30 minutes long and I don't want to "cut" 
>the movie. How do I compress the video so it will fit?

Exporting for iDVD does not compress your video with MPEG-2.
It merely creates a full-quality Quicktime video suitable
for MPEG-2 compression. 30 minutes will fit fine on a DVD
after compression--but not before. Use iDVD, not Toast for
this.

-- Erica