Can't burn iMovie on DVD via share- media browser

Hi, I am a novice with iMovie. I have filmed my twins' first Xmas carol concert with my Canon digital video camera.Now I want to burn a simple copy of the film fro my white MacBook onto DVD for fellow mums.I did share->media browser then iDVD ->new project . It says project errors while adjusting or sth like that. Then ask me for a theme ??? and Dropzones?????? Help I don't want anything fancy just my raw film on a DVD. Also the film has only 7600MB a new 4.7GBDVD +R  disk has not enough space, how come???? I spent now 3 hours trying to achive this without any luck - PLEASE someone out there have mercy!

daveslave101,
Karsten Schluter has some suggestions on how to just make a simple no theme DVD project here on this message thread:
Home Video in _TS starts in DVD player automatically when I copy and burn it will not start automatically. How do I make a good copy to start automatically?
Set the Project to 'Structure View', then drag the video project from the Media Browser into the first 'box' that appears in the DVD structure view of the project. Also note, iDVD doesn't pay any attention to how big your finished video clip is. It only pays attention to how long the video clip runs. iDVD will allow you to create a DVD just under 120 minutes in length (but it will take a while to crunch everything down into the space available). Ideally your project would be just under 60 minutes (and that takes much less time to transcode into MPEG2 format for the DVD). As long as your video runs under 120 minutes iDVD will be able to fit it on the space of a DVD+R disk I think. iDVD also takes into a account all the 'interface' items you aren't going to use (menus, animations, thumbnail video clips and music), that takes up space too, so you might be closer to 100-110 minutes run time at a maximum for an iDVD project.

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