Burn new DVD or copy existing DVD?

For reasons too stupid, ignorant and boring to go into, I have so far been deleting the imovieproject files after I have burned to DVD, retaining the DVDproject files.
I need to clear the 50 odd GB these take up. In case I need to make a copy of a DVD for family members, which gives the best quality - burning a fresh DVD from the dvdproject file OR simply making a copy of the DVD?

So what I should have done is to trash everything BUT the iMovie!
only if you really need/want to to be able to edit the movies again, not if you just need to conserve space. And, as pointed out, having an iDVDproject without its accompanying media files is useless.
However, if you save your iDVD project as a 'disc image' you can save these image files and use them to burn more DVDs later with Disk Utility. If you are burning single-layer DVDs, they take up to 4.7 GB for a 2 hr movie, as opposed to the 30+GB for that same 2 hrs iMovie.
Many of us recommend doing the 'save as disk image' before burning the DVD the first time as a way to be sure the DVD project will come out all right.
Thus, you can have lots of these .img files and trash all the iMovies and iDVD projects and still be able to burn those DVDs at a later date.
I have saved most of my DVDs as their .img files on my external drive. I also export my iMovies to DV tapes to preserve them that way, waiting for the day when the current DVDs become obsolete and I will have to adopt a new media/method.

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