Audio Motion Menu Limit

Hello!
I am at a stage in my project that i need to add a voice over to the dvd. The dvd consists of 110 static menus - which up until now has worked fine. I have an audio file that needs to be cut up for each section, and the file is 460mb - so each menu will roughly have 4mb of audio on it.
So am I right or wrong in saying that after all the menus have the audio in, the motion menu size will be 460mb? or maybe a bit more including the static menu elements? If not is their anyway I can work out what the total size of the motion menu's will be?
This is pretty urgent so any help would be very very appreciated.
Thanks,
Steven.

You should be okay as long as you don't exceed a total of 1Gb in Menu Space.
Over that & all bets are off.
Under that, and you should be okay.

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