Project exceeds the maximum allowed content

Please let me know how I can correct this error message that I get when I decide to burn my DVD. (Project Duration Your project exceeds the maximum allowed content duration. You will not be able to burn your DVD).
Thank you;

Hello, Thomas,
Welcome to the discussions!
You will get the 'exceeds the maximum allowed content duration' message if your DVD project exceeds the time limit for the type of burn you have selected.
1. If your project, usually iMovie, is over 2hrs, you cannot burn it to a single layer DVD.
2. If your project is under 2hrs but your menus and submenus' audio and video content is extensive, your project will exceed the DVD capacity.
3. Most commonly, your project is over 2 hrs, but you have selected "best performance" in DVD preferences instead of "best quality." 'Best performance' is for projects that are under 60min, and 'best quality' is for those over 2 hrs. You change this in DVD preferences.
Explanation for the differences (adapted from David Pogue's little iDVD4 pamphlet):
"Choosing best performance for shorter projects allows the DVD app to allot a fixed amount of data to each frame of video, enough to make it look great no matter how many minutes of video it includes(up to 60min) so that a lot of the DVD can end up empty, but the burning process goes quickly and the video looks great.
Choosing best quality allows the DVD app to us all the space on the balnk DVD by analyzing the amount of video included and dividing it into the amount of space available on the DVD so that the amount of information used for each frame will vary from project to project, and it will take longer to burn because of the analysis time. But, it will give 2 hrs of great-looking video per disc."
Does this help??
Post back if you are still having problems, and if so, be specific in what you are trying to do and what is not working.

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