Burning an iMovie and Connecting eMacs via Crossover Cables

Is the following solution to my scenario possible:
I have a dead Superdrive in one of my eMacs and am unable to burn (obviously). I would still like to use the eMac to create movies using iMovie but am wondering if I can connect this eMac to another eMac using a crossover cable, and use the eMac with the working Superdrive to burn the DVD?
I have a fear that this wont be possible if the video files need to be on the computer that is doing the burning. I teach at a school and money is not freely accessible (I realize I could get an external burner and problem solved but this might not be possible and am looking for alternate solutions - maybe this is too crazy for anyone to have attempted before).
Thanks for any and all input.

If you have finished editing your movie and have it in an iDVD project, you can create a disk image of your project and use that for burning the actual DVD disks. You can connect the two eMacs via Firewire and use the 'bad' one that has your project on it in target mode. It will then appear on the other one as another drive. You can copy the disk image file of your iDVD project and then burn it on the eMac whose Superdrive is good, using Disk Utility.
Here are instructions for creating a disk image file:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/6733.html
Here are instructions for setting up the target mode connection:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
And here are instructions for burning from Disk Utility:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2087?viewlocale=en_US
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