Burn I movie onto a disc

I want to burn an I movie onto a disc. When I try to do it it tells me that the cd can't be played on a dvd player and that the file is too large for a disc. What should I do? I want to be able to copy the movie onto discs and mail it to several clients. I want them to be able to receive the movie in an easy format. When I e mail it the compressed file is hard to see.

You must burn a video on a DVD disc, not a CD.
Burn your DVD by clicking on the round wheel just to the left of the Themes button in the iDVD project window. Or use the Disk Utility app on your Mac to burn it.
Any project under two hours running time will burn on a standard DVD disc.

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