Dividing a long movie into a 2 part dvd

Learning DVD Studio Pro I am having trouble figuring out how to divide a long movie into a 2 disc dvd. The movie is 1 hour and 40 minutes. Is it as simple as dividing the movie into 2 separate DVD Studio Pro projects, each with its own separate menus and menu buttons for chapter markers?
I want to avoid the dual layer disc method, as it causes too many problems for burning.
Thanks.

On a standard DVD 5 disc (single layer), you actually only have about 4.3gb of space to work with even though they're sold as 4.7gb discs.
The size of the encoded .m2v file is dependent on two factors; the length of the program and the bit rate used during the encoding process. The lower the bit rate, the smaller the file. Of course, lower bit rates sacrifice quality. But if your program has little motion (a seminar or talking head type of program for example), you can use a relatively small bit rate without losing much quality since there is little change from frame to frame. Conversely, a program with a lot of movement will require a relatively high bit rate to maintain good quality since so much information changes from frame to frame.
Normally I use Compressor to handle the encoding so I have full control over the various parameters of both the video and audio encoding ... I don't really trust DVD-SP to get it right.
-DH

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