Can't burn movie to dvd

I just made a movie in "imovie" and all I want to do is burn it do a dvd......but how do I do this?  I don't seem to have idvd.....so when I go to share - idvd - it seems to render it (as it takes about 9 minutes)....but then nothing.
Please help.  I just want to burn my movie onto a dvd....but I can't find idvd anywhere.

Hi
There are two kinds of DVDs that You can burn/create with the same sort of DVD that You bought.
• Data-DVD - When DVD is seen on DeskTop and files added to this ===> Result is a Data-DVD and this can only be read by a computer - no DVD-Player can play it
• Video-DVD - Is the kind of DVDs that plays on DVD-players and to do this You must use a Video-encoding-burning program as iDVD or Roxio Toast™ or DVD-Studio Pro. It encodes the video in a proper way but also it structures the material in a way a DVD-Player can use. Can not be done (as far as I know of) via DeskTop/Finder.
Yours Bengt W

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