Compressing final cut file to burn

Could someone please help me? This is my first time on this forum so hopefully I am posting correctly.
I have a FCP project that I am trying to burn for a friend to be copied onto those little business card DVDs. The disk only holds 5min/50mb. I have compressed the file down to about 30mb but every time I burn it in iDVD it triples in size therefore surpassing the 50mb maximum.
Any advice would be so greatly appreciated.

It is just under 5 minutes in length and was 1.4GB.
Do you mean that you exported a QT file with "Current Settings" that was 1.04 Gb?
I compressed using QuickTime Coversion (I have not learned how to use Compressor yet.) I tried a million different combinations to get it to the size I needed and ended up with a 320 X 240, H.264 with 150 fps which resulted in a 30MB file.
There is no need to do this. iDVD will compress it to the proper format for DVD, which is mpeg2. By doing it this way you are compressing it to a format that will not work on a DVD (unless you are just trying to create a Data only DVD) and then iDVD is then trying to create an mpeg2 file to go on a DVD. That's why you are getting crazy file sizes.
Now you said that you want this on a Business Card sized DVD. I do not know if the file that you get out of iDVD will fit. iDVD doesn't give you much control of the final file output. It defaults to giving you the best quality that will fit on a 4.7 GB DVD. I don't use iDVD much so you may want to look for a setting that will allow you to set your output to the smaller DVD.
Best thing for you to do is to dig into the manuals and learn how to get footage into FCP and how to use Compressor to get it out. You are really going about things backwards here by going from iMovie to fcp to idvd.
Finally, if you have gotten just a plain old QT file out of FCP (FILE>EXPORT>QUICKTIME MOVIE - Current Settings, Make movie Self-Contained) then just drop that file into iDVD and let it do the work.
Good Luck,
K

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