Burning an iMovie onto dvd

I have a Mac air and have finalised my iMovie 11. Can you tell me how to burn it onto a DVD so I can watch it on my video player? I have bought an external DVD player to do the job but I don't know which app I need to actually burn the movie.
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Hi
If there is no iDVD on Your Mac (and it's not on newer Macs as Apple discarded it) then You need a program that can do this.
Your Mac can burn CDs and DVDs - BUT DVD as Data-DVDs not as Video-DVDs - they need a program to be encoded and STRUCTURED as such.
• iDVD is part of the boxed version of iLife'11 and can only be bought outside Apple as on Amazon and e-bay
• DVD Studio pro - Part of FinalCut Studio Pro bundle - this to has expired and can only be bought second handed. (High price and tough learning Curve - but best ever done.)
• Roxio Toast™ - Not as elegant as iDVD - but has many other positive additions (I like it as 10-Pro incl BD-component) (now version 11)
• Burn - only free alternative I know of on internet. Very simple - Just for doing a plain Video-DVD
Burn http://www.digital-digest.com/software/Burn.html
only You can buy from Apple is
• FinalCut Pro-X which also can burn to DVD but without any nice themes.
AppleMan1958
You can also buy Compressor from Apple for $50 US. It will also create DVD and BluRay but without the nice themes.
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It generally means that the media is faulty or of poor quality. Most of us here use Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden media.
OR
Your Superdrive may need a clean.
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Part of this is going from 1080P to 480P.
But if you are using SHARE/iDVD, try using SHARE/MEDIA BROWSER in Large size. Then, in iDVD, drag the movie into your project from the Media Browser.
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a) your film is completed on imovie 10.0. Under share transfer it to "Theatre" (default).
b) open iDVD and drag the film ex "Theatre" on the space "movie" of i.DVD.
c) Inser a DVD and clic on "burn"...
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Purchase iLife 11 (includes iDVD) on disk.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
http://dealmac.com/lw/artclick.html?1,527850,1872219
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I'm so frustrated that this new iMAC doesn't have a program to do this.
Tell Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/
IDVD is included with iLife 11 ON DISK.
For making movies there is no alternative or substitute for iDVD. (Buy it while you still can.)
I've tried Burn and Toast and many others, iDVD is by far the best.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U TF8&qid=1331262475&sr=8-1
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I start the burn process - I get all the way to "multiplexing and burning" and between 1 and 3 minutes left, it spits out the DVD and then the rotating wheel of horror just rotates until I hit cancel leaving nothing on the DVD. I know there have been previous posts about this issue. I have tried to read them all and do as was instructed by Klaus1 & Bengt (you two seem to know the fixes!) - but nothing seems to be working.
Are there any other ideas out there of what I can do to get this iMovie onto a DVD??
Working on a 24.5" iMac - OS X 10.6.8
My iMovie is version 8.0.6 (821)
My iDVD is version 7.1.2 (1158)
My movie is 33 minutes long
I am burning to a Verbatim DVD-R with 4.7GB
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Video Mode - NTSC
Encoding - Best Performance
Aspect Ratio - Widescreen 16:9
DVD Type - Single Layer (SL) 4.2 GB
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* I checked the TV safe area - I'm all good there.
* I don't have chapters in my DVD - so there aren't characters to change or titles to add
* All the videos within my iMovie were taken on an iphone so no strange material
* The name of my video project does not have numbers or symbols in it
* I have done a safe reboot of my computer
* I created a Disk Image file and saved it to my desktop - no issues saving it there - works great. Tried to burn from the Disk Image file to the DVD - got the same issue with the "multiplexing and burning" spit out at 1 minute to go.
* I tried burning at a slow speed - doesn't change anything.
* I unplugged all external hard drives or anything else plugged into my computer (chargers, etc.) and tried again. Nada.
* I downloaded the program BURN and tried to use that instead of iDVD. I cancelled the progress after it got to only 65% done in 46 hours.
* I have plenty of free space on my hard drive
* I tried an SMC reset - shutting down / unplugging
* I have tried to burn the DVD with all other programs & applications closed during the process. Doesn't matter.
Have I stumped you? Because I feel defeated. Please HELP!

Hi
If You got a working DiskImage. (that plays well with DVD-player tool)
And still don't get an OK DVD via Disk Util tool - then either
• DVD burner are faulty - or -
• Dirty
I use a cleaning DVD (with brushes - NO LIQUID) from time to time.
By burning more than three DVDs in a row one can easily overheat the DVD-laser = Expensive Repair
I let my DVD-burner cool down for 20-30 minutes after each 3 DVD set's
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*Creating a movie to use with iDVD, iWeb, or other Apple applications*
If you want to use of your iMovie projects in iDVD, iWeb, or another Apple application, you need to render it and send it to the Media Browser. iMovie allows you to render one or more sizes of your a movie, depending on the size of the original media used in the project.
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