Burning to DVD-R disc

How do we know if the entire project will be fit to one DVD (4GB)? There is no indicator as to how much the project can hold if burning to a single DVD.

Forget the size of the project, it is the length that counts.
iDVD will burn any movie of up to 120 minutes (including titles, transitions etc, for which allow 15 minutes) to a single DVD.
iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)

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