Burning our wedding video to i DVD

I'm editing our wedding video which will be about 2 1/2 hours long. i usually export it as a quicktime movie which is great quality. i think a dvd will only hold 4.7 G of footage. I know this is going to be a lot more a high quality. how can i reduce the size of the video so it still has somewhat good quality and fit all of it on a dvd? i'm running FCP 4.5 HD on a G4. thanks
J

H20boy (pun),
If you're looking for some extra advice rather than hearing the same thing x number of times, whatever you decide to do media/length-wise I would suggest you export from Final Cut using Compressor as an MPEG-2 VBR 2-pass (not to exceed 8.0 max) with .ac3 audio to achieve the best quality.
With your current length you might be able to squeeze it into one single-layer using a bit rate of about oh... I'd say 3.5/4.0 or so. You'll definitely loose quality with that bit-rate though...
The reason you want to export using Compressor is because MPEG-2 is the delivery codec used on DVD's. When you Export as a Quicktime (or any other format other than MPEG-2) and bring that into iDVD, DVDSP any other DVD authoring program, that DVD authoring program is going to compress the file to an MPEG-2 for DVD delivery. Some DVD authoring software compressors are decent, others are not so much - but Compressor is probably the most reliable within reason. And since you are gonna end up w/ an MPEG-2 sooner or later, there's really no point in exporting it as a Quicktime so that you can then compress it as an MPEG-2. Just do all of your exporting in one step with Compressor.
Export at night before you go to bed because I have a feeling it's gonna take a while for the compression. Man I love my Mac Pro!
Best of wishes to you and your newlywed!

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