Burning a Video Across Multiple DVDs Easily?

I have a big compilation of old tapes I imported into an iMovie project. I want to burn the clips onto DVDs readable by DVD players (so MPEG-2), but there are >14 hours of pretty uncompressed video there. I could, of course, chop the movie into parts, but then it's hard to judge how big the pieces should be because the file size on the DVD will be much smaller than my current DV files.
Is there a program or a method to easily burn one big movie file across multiple DVDs by chopping it so each DVD is filled?

You need to edit them properly in iMovie into individual movies of max length 90 minutes or so, then burn each one in iDVD.
The idea of using multiple DVDs for a single 14 hour movie won't work.

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I'm also interested in this question and am confused.
Are you talking about * Explanation 1) making duplicates of a CD without having to manually drag every single folder onto a dvd - or * Explanation 2) copying one set of data, too large for one DVD, across multiple DVDs (like span/concatenation).
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KJK555 You say "Drag and drop files and folders until image reaches DVD size.
Close image." Which made me think we are talking about explnation 1
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mcavalla
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a. Is this a :"it worked before but not now" issue or "it never worked before" issue?
b. If you did a burn to folder (4.7 GB) for your DVD-VIDEO, does that go to a successful completion?
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Jim,
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