Can Final Cut Express 4 export videos into iDVD '06?

Hello cp115,
Sorry for the unrelated question, but I am going to buy FCE 4 and was wondering if I could export videos made there into iDVD '06? I am assuming so.
Christoph

An educated guess is that it will work. But I'd like you to confirm this prior to purchasing with apple directly (pre sales questions).

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First step - just use this export as the import into iDVD. iDVD will take care of the necessary encoding to fit it on a DVD disk. The file size is of no concern; the only concern is the length (in time) of the video ... iDVD can fit about 2 hours of video on single layer DVD media; about 4 hours on dual-layer DVD media.
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