Burning iMovies, Dead Superdrive and Crossover Cable Connections - oh my!

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.

Probably a slightly easier and faster way to access the iMovie project from the "defective" drive eMac is to hook the two emacs together with a standard Firewire cable. Now boot the eMac with the bad drive and the project into Target mode. This makes that eMac look like an external hard drive to the other Mac and will appear on the other Mac's desktop as a drive. Now simply open the project directly off the hard drive of the eMac and it will be no different than loading the project from an external drive. Or you can simply copy the project over into the other eMac.
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