Burn DVD from Digital Video (DV)

I have a one hour project on Imovie. When trying to burn it on IDVD I stopped the process after 15 hours. I thought it was caught up in some kind of loop. Someone said to convert it to a DV -Digital video file. I did that. It took 36 hours to convert! It looks great but the DV file is 23 Gigs!
I would welcome any suggestions on how to get this project onto a disc.
Imac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi pooper,
(Guten Tag is perfect!... but Karen is female, Karsten the male form...)
I think, we have it, ....almost....
first things first:
codec - your video is lots of frames, 30 frames per second/fps with thousands of pixels.... that is a lot of data! 1 hour of tape contains ~13Gigabyte of data.... that data have a special "store form factor", we like to say compressor, or codec, tape and iM use "dv" (=codec, miniDV=cassette type).... a videoDVD fitting 1 hour video just needs for the same movie just 2.2GB data - how's that? because it uses another compressor, mpeg2... very efficient, but just for playback...
BUT!
you said, your dv file is 23GB... <calculating> your project is LONGER then, letssay 115 minutes?
iDVD just accepts files of up to 120minute length, it doesn't care for size.... (I wrote 115min, because iDVD needs some "room" for menu, music, buttons, backgrounds etc...)
latest guess:
your project is too long!
(hopefully it is that easy...)
concerning disk space:
for letting your Mac work properly, the free space on your internal drive counts... the ext. drive is just for "storage", not for the files, your Mac writes/reads "secretly"... and: your Mac will not complain runnig out of space, it will just die... oops, no!, it will freeze. first getting slower, then freeze.....-
sorry for speaking so ... childish, but a) complex process b) me no english c) I don't know what you know....
tell us the length in min:sec of your project...-
(HA! this post gets a yellow star, I'm soooo sure... lalalala.... :•) )

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