What settings to use to share for making idvd?

Hi J

Yes You are.

a. You can Share/Export directly to iDVD. (Not my method)

b. Close iMovie, locate Your project icon/folder (if icon - ctrl-click on it and
select "Show package", in this there is a folder "Share Movie" and in this a
folder "iDVD" and in this a QT ref movie named "project name".mov. Drop
this in an open iDVD theme. Make a tuch up and burn (make a desk image
first to see that it is OK).

Yours Bengt W

It's not necessary to export the iMovie project to make a iDVD.

iMovie HD creates a small reference movie on its that iDVD uses to make a DVD. It's the file that Bengt pointed you to.

The movie has no data of its own, just pointers to the files in the iMovie project. Without your doing anything, iMovie updates that movie each time you save the iMovie project so it's always ready to share with iDVD.

1. Press the Create iDVD Project button in the iDVD tab of iMovie. iMovie will tell iDVD to make a new project and send it the reference movie; or

2. Drag the iMovie HD project into the iDVD window.

Bengt's method works too, but it's a bit more complicated than it needs to be. If you drag the iMovie HD project icon into the iDVD window, iDVD will look for reference movie Bengt pointed you to that's inside the package.

Karl

Note if you have or ever buy Toast 7 (which I prefer to iDVD for speed and other reasons), it too will use the reference movie to encode/author DVD's.

what's the best way to compress an iMovie file , 3hours and 10 mins? I have a dual layer burner.

Toast will make a disk image from an iMovie project and will ignore size other than to warn you with a color bar that it is getting pretty big ( if you have the size set a DVD it will turn red once you are in DL territory).

When you are done making an image if it is even too big for a DL DVD (and 3+ hours might be), you can then recompress that image with Toast to fit a DVD-R or DVD+DL and it will redo the compression. And then leave you with a 2nd disk image of exactly the right size, or burn directly to DVD when done.