Moving video clips efficiently

I made a 5 hour movie containing 3 high school basketball games played 20 years ago (28-0 team yeh for us. :] ) . I added effects such as slow motion and titles flashing score and player names after each basket. It is 114 GB. I now realize that a DVD cannot hold 5 hours worth of information. I have 2 questions.
1 - If each game contains 100 + clips (as I have split video at playclip a lot obviously) then the 3 games have about 300 clips totaling 5 hours. If I need to make each game a separate iMOVIE (approx. 40 GB each) how do I efficiently extract the 2 games' worth of clips that I do not need? I have thought about making extra backup copies of 5 hour iMOVIE and then simply deleting 2 games worth of footage. Then I could export the one game to make a DVD. I am nervous about highlighting and grabbing all the clips and shoving onto panel. I am not sure if all the clips will stay in the correct order. My clips panel is stock full of clips as well. It would seem tedious to grab each clip one by one and drag to clips panel in correct order. IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THERE WAS SOME BLOCKER ICON OR SOMETHING I COULD DRAG TO MOVIE PANEL THAT WOULD INSTRUCT THE COMPUTER WHEN TO START EXPORTING CLIPS TO MAKE DVD AND WHEN TO STOP. I DON'T THINK THIS FUNCTION EXISTS BUT AM MENTIONING IT JUST IN CASE THERE IS SOMETHING SIMILAR I CAN DO.
2 - If each game is about 1 hour and 45 minutes should I be concerned that 40GB (approx. amount of each game) will not export properly to make a DVD. I don't know if 40 GB. approx. will fit onto a DVD even if it is less than 2 hours. FYI - I DO NOT have dual layer burning capabilities on my Powerbook G4.
Thanks,

Thank you Klaus1.
I HAVE 2 QUESTIONS.
Per your suggestion:
1 - Do I lose quality by having to export to Quicktime, then re-import to a new iMOVIE and then make an iDVD? I don't have Roxio and don't want to lose any quality.
Based on what you wrote it appears that even when I highlight selected clips - say 100 or so for the first basketball game - I cannot make those selected clips into a DVD. I need to export to Quicktime and then re-import into iMOVIE and then make a DVD. The key concept is I am only highlighting the first games' clips and leaving the other 2 games unselected as they would push the project over 2 hours per DVD. I worry that I lose quality through the method you suggest. It has been so long since I made a DVD but I don't think you typically have to export to a Quicktime file to make a DVD. I thought you were suggesting this as a way to somehow get my first basketball game (100 clips) in a separate iMOVIE in order to make a DVD of the 1 game.
My friend wrote this to me and I wanted to ask you my 2nd question based on it.
"As long as you keep you running time for each DVD to under 2 hours, you should be good and should not have to worry about the size of your original video footage. It will all be compressed to MPEG-2 format for DVD, and your source could be anything, even HD. So your original footage can be downright gigantic and it will still compress down for DVD. The only space requirements you need to be concerned with is the compressed size. When you compress for DVD, you choose your quality. The higher the quality, the higher the file size. When I create a DVD with footage that's 30 minutes long, I compress with high quality/large file size because it will still fit. If I'm squeezing 2 hours onto a DVD, I compress with low quality/small file size so it'll fit. You'll likely have to choose the lowest quality setting if you're really squeezing a lot in."
2 - I DO NOT HAVE A DUAL LAYER BURNER... BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE IF I TRY TO MAKE A DVD BASED ON A BASKETBALL GAME THAT IS ABOUT 1 HOUR AND 45 MINUTES (4O GB) THE QUALITY WILL BE LESS PER WHAT MY FRIEND SAI. SO MY 2ND QUESTION IS IF I BOUGHT AN EXTERNAL DUAL LAYER BURNER WOULD IT BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF IDVD WHICH I HAVE AND WOULD IT ALLOW ME TO MAKE A HIGHER QUALITY DVD (AS DUAL LAYER ALLOWS YOU TO GET 4 HOURS ON ONE SIDE).
FEEL FREE TO TELL ME IF YOU THINK THE QUALITY WILL BE LESS WHEN I TRY TO PUT ONE HOUR AND 45 MINUTES OF FOOTAGE (40 GB) ON ONE DVD SINGLE LAYER.
Thanks,
Todd

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