Go to iDVD preferences, and select the General tab. Under Encoder Settings, select "best quality" which will allow for much better compression, and therefore more minutes on a disk. Michael On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:23 AM, Mitchell Senft wrote: > Have 55 minutes of DV I'm trying to get onto a DVD. In both iMovie > and iDVD, I get messages that it's too much for a disk. How can > this be and more importantly, is there any way to reduce the size > of the overall movie to get it to fit (other than just breaking it > into two movies). I don't understand how 55 minutes is too much to > fit on a single disk.