Compressing media files

[E. Bond Francisco]

Folks,

I'll bet this has been talked about many times, but I can't get to the 
list Archive site, so I'll ask it:

I've captured 4.82 G of media from an SVHS tape for a client and put 
them in an iMovie project. The client wants me to move the files onto a 
DVD that he can read on his Mac, OSX 10.2, imovie 3. I'm using iMovie 
4. The client then wants to be able to edit the movie on his own Mac, 
using iMovie3 or FCE. So the deal was, I would just burn the whole 
darned project (QT movie, Project File and Media) onto a DVD.

So, guess what, the DV holds 4.7G! Arrgghhhh! So now I'm trying to 
figure out how to compress the actual media files so that I can put 
them on the DVD and send them off. I attempted to ZIP them up in 
Stuffit Deluxe 8, but it choked.  Any clues? What's the best way to 
compress these media files?

Thanks,

Bond