Burn .mov to idvd

I know that Apple has moved on and no longer supports my creating an iphoto slideshow or imovie and
then burning that slideshow or movie to a dvd that I can give to a family member or friend. 
I have not moved on.  I am going to find a way to do this even if it means moving to a PC.
However, I would like to know for sure that there is no way to do this on Apple before I discard all of my
experience with iphoto, imovie and idvd.  I have a macbook that I upgraded to 10.6.8 (snow leopard)
which is when I lost my capabilites.  If I just reinstall panther will that take care of it?  I do
not believe that upgrading to ilife'11 will do what I need.  I know all about icloud and that is fine,
but not sufficient.  I want a hard copy.  Can anyone please tell me if I can reconfigure Apple
to work again for me?  Thank you.

Hi
Apple only discarded iDVD on new Macs with Mac OS X.7 - but it still runs on them too if You got it (e.g. in iLife'11)
So either it's still there in Your Application Folder - or You can re-install it from the DVD that was delivered with Your Mac.
Else
There are two structures of DVDs
• Data-DVD - as burned from DeskTop/Finder
• Video-DVD - to be played on a DVD-Player - Needs a program that can do this
One can in iMovie - Export as QuickTime .mov and save this via DeskTop/Finder onto a DVD - BUT this will only play on a Computer and if it is a Window-PC this needs to download QT-player or VLC-player.
But no DVD-player for TV can play back this.
To get a Video-DVD then You need
• iDVD (not from Apple any more) - or -
• DVD Studio Pro (not from Apple any more) - or -
• FinalCut Pro-X (can do simple Video-DVDs) - or -
• Burn - http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html - FREE - but very PLAIN - no fancy things at all.
• Roxio Toast™ 11 Pro - Fairly advanced - and costs a bit - still very Good and lot's of great tool's included. (I love it) - Can also back convert home made DVDs to an editable mode in an OK quality. With BD-component also capable to do sort of Blu-Ray DVDs.
Yours Bengt W

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