How do I move my iMovie movie onto a dvd that will play in a dvd player w/o idvd?

Hi

If there is no iDVD on Your Mac (and it's not on newer Macs as Apple discarded it) then You need a program that can do this.

Your Mac can burn CDs and DVDs - BUT DVD as Data-DVDs not as Video-DVDs - they need a program to be encoded and STRUCTURED as such.

iDVD is part of the boxed version of iLife'11 and can only be bought outside Apple as on Amazon and e-bay

DVD Studio pro - Part of FinalCut Studio Pro bundle - this to has expired and can only be bought second handed. (High price and tough learning Curve - but best ever done.)

Roxio Toast™ - Not as elegant as iDVD - but has many other positive additions (I like it as 10-Pro incl BD-component) (now version 11)

FinalCut Pro-X which also can burn to DVD but without any nice themes.

AppleMan1958

You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.

Free solutions:

Burn - a free alternative from Internet. Very simple - Just for doing a plain Video-DVD

Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html

Gives a fairly good resulting Video-DVD

Free DVD Creator.app - free from Apple Store

(very simple - Quality ?? not sure - looked problematic reg. Interlacing)

Yours Bengt W

follwo advice given in the User Tip section of this board

>> How to create a video-DVD? (Macs without iDVD)

Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac? How do I get it and how do I install it?

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3673

If you have no iDVD on your Mac, you can try AppGeeker DVD Creator.

I use that, very easy to use plus you have various of DVD menu templates that can choose from to customize into the DVD project. Great little program.

http://www.appgeeker.com