Burning DVD when film completed in Imovie

Hello , I just finished a project / film on Imovie ( 55 minutes). I would like to burn it now on DVD for my friends. I have to make 5 copies . What is the correct procedure to do this ?
Thanks in advance for a quick response.
Luc

Another option is to locate the imported material in the finder (Event-right click) and then just drag that to DVD. As far as I can tell, that doesn't harm the quality on export the way iMovie does when one moves a project, as it is high quality Apple Intermediate Codec. However, one can only do this with the basic video, there are no transitions or whatever.
I mention this because I recently taped a half hour conference talk, as was able to start and stop at the right place and use the video in iDVD.
Another alternative is to drag the clip from the finder to MpegStreamclip and edit in start and stop points.
Not a usable technique if one wants to edit a movie, but it works fine, as far as I can tell, for large, simple projects. Tape an hour long talk, drag to iDVD, sit back and wait. The wait is short, compared to using the share menu.

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