Can't burn my movie

I made a movie in iMovie and do not have a DVD burner on my laptop. I saved it to my Firelite external drive and tried to transfer it to my desktop which does have a DVD burner. I updated my software but it won't burn to a DVD that will play in a DVD player and when I tried it remake it in iDVD the movie won't open because it cannot find some files. I HAVE TO BURN THIS!!! It is for my sister's rehearsal dinner next week!!! HELP ME

welcome indyamy to the  boards ...
iMovie is the video edit app..
iDVD is the videoDVD burning app ...
a) your external harddrive has to be formatted as "MacOsExtended" (hfs), use the Disk Utility, to be found in your Utilities Folder...
b) in Finder, drag'n drop your iM-project file to the ext. drive...
c) connect drive to other Mac
d) launch iDVD, new project
e) drag'n drop project into iDVD window...
post results here ...

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