Burning a DVD with Finder

The Finder only burns a data DVD, not a movie authored DVD. A standard DVD disc only holds about 4.7GB of uncompressed data. Thus the capacity of the disc when burned with the Finder is limited to 4.7GB of data. On the other hand, an authored DVD, one created by a DVD authoring program like iDVD or toast, will compress 2 hours of video and as much as 26GB of data to fit onto a standard DVD.

So, your options are the following:

1. Split the movie and burn each half on a separate DVD with the Finder.
2. Reduce the size of your movie to fit on a data DVD.
3. Purchase a DVD authoring program and burn your video through it.

-- Rich

You do know that you are just burning a video file and not a DVD that will play in a plain-vanilla player right? i.e., you are using it as a DVD ROM.

As such it can only handle 4.7 GB. You will need to up the compression to fit more onto it.