Best DVD-burning method for low-volume output

I have used iMovie to create a numer of projects that vary in length from 30 minutes to one hour 40 minutes.
I would like to keep them as iMovie files on an external hard drive, then use the simplest method to burn them to a DVD when a customer orders one.
* Number of orders is too low to use a servive that replicates/duplicates.
* My needs are very basic. Don't require a fancy DVD with menus, etc.
* Would prefer using an external burner to minimize wear on internal one.
Question: Is there a way to save an iMovie project to a certain file format on an external hard drive, then just drag it to a blank DVD and hit "burn"--and be certain that the result will play in a DVD player?
Thanks.

I agree with Matthew's suggestion to use a DVD disc image. This is the file that gets burned to DVD, nice and compressed to fit the disc. Once you create it, you can use Disk Utility (or Toast, if you have it) to burn it anytime you like, and the burn just takes a few minutes.
iMovie cannot create this disc image for you. The good news is that iDVD can create it. You need to create a new project in iDVD, import your iMovie project into it, and use File > Save As Disc Image.
You do not have to have the theme and menus in your iDVD project, if they really bother you. F Shippey has made a nice tutorial explaining how to create an autoplay DVD with a simple "replay disc" page for the viewer. Read this thread and follow F Shippey's link for instructions: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4387688
Another good thing about disc images is that if you are sure you won't want to edit the movie in any way in the future, you can keep that small (4.7GB or less) disc image and delete the huge iMovie project. The iDVD is project reference-based, so if you delete the iMovie project you may as well delete the iDVD project as well. Disc images are a space-efficient way to store your old movies. You can always burn another copy. (Just be really sure you won't want to do any further editing. The DVD is so highly compressed that to open it back for editing takes extra software and results in a visible loss of resolution.)

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