Reducing file size for export - best results???

I have put my art to eleven songs of a client. I am beginning to turn them into quicktime conversions movies and am trying Animation, Pixlet, H.264, Sorenson 3 (recommended by Apple Pro person). I cruntched all songs and looked at my folder - gulp - over 25 gigs (each song is approx. 3-4 gigs)...hum, can't get that on a DVD.
Now I am beginning to reduce quality, setitng key frames to automatic instead of all, reducing size. I am getting smaller file sizes but of course the stuff looks worse.
Any suggestions while I continue to try out everything? Any suggestions on the compression type? My art is moving stills from paintings, very ambient.
Thanks,
~Mark
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I take it you just want to get the songs onto DVD If you put all of them in one sequence (timeline) what is the total length?
iDVD will allow you to export up to two hours of video regardless of file size
Export as Quicktime Movie (not Quicktime Conversion) and import that into iDVD ..or DVD Studio Pro for that matter
Quicktime Movie will keep the "native" quality of your FCE project.

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