idvd replacement?
i have produced a 1:40 hour long home-movie on iMovie 11.
As iDvd is no longer a choice to make the dvd disc to play in a dvd player, I want to ask: what software does Apple suggest to replace it? giving that, whatever the new philosophy the company has now towards the future of digital storage tools, I still, like many others, are producing small home-movies to share with people that doesnt use the cloud plugging a computer to a big screen plasma, like the family, where there is usually elder people involved, that just owns a TV and a dvd-player.
I have made a diamond wedding anniversary movie (yes, thats 60 years of marriage, quite a lot of material!!) so i can leave them a movie to watch as many times as they want, comfortable from bed, while im away in summer vacations.
To my surprise (no i havent checked before i started!) my new macbook pro iLife 11 package doesnt includes iDvd.
Im not a pro. iDvd provides me the one and only solution for compressing, encoding and setting menus needs. I have no idea now, how to turn my 300GB imovie project into a DV that fits in a 4GB dvd-disc to play in a dvd-player. I dont want to convert it to .mov/ .mp4/ .avi, etc and then burn a dvd in toast, because it looses quality.
I want to join together the imovie-trailer AND the movie-project in a single movie, add a menu and a press a big yellow button that burns the DVD... all at once! like iDVD used to.
It is hard to believe Apple becames so fussy to leave so many mac users behind.
Please advice asap.
Thank you!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)