Archiving idvd video image (.img) files

Hi -
I've made some digital video DVD's using the disk utility program to burn the image files onto DVD's to play in a stand alone DVD player.
Now I want to archive those same video image files, as .img files to be used for burning future playable DVD disks and get them off my storage drive to free up space.
My question is, can I just drag the .img file into My toast window and by using disk image from the pull down option under "Other" burn them onto a DVD disk - if so can I put on more than one or as many that will fit?
Or do I need to use the DVD option from the pull down, create New DVD and then drag my image file or files over.
Or is there some other way???
Don't want to keep experimenting wasting all my DVD's - been there, done that - trying to burn my idvd projects using idvd - making image files first then burning through disk utility works much better!
Jen

can I also put the original raw "imovie project" file on the same dvd disk as the ".img file" for that movie and then also how about the whole "archived.dvdproj" project file?
the only thing is that the "archived.dvdproj" is huge, can Stuffit be use to condense the file first?
As you pointed out, iMovie project file is huge, it probably wouldn't fit into a DVD. Stuffit probably wouldn't able to codense it that much either. Using an external firewire hard drive to offload the files is one option. Another option is using a backup software which can span across multiple DVDs (Toast 7 Titanium has this new feature).

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