Does iDVD 5 compress iMovie HD data?

When transferring a project from iMovie to iDVD, I notice that a large project is reduced to under 4 gig in Best Quality mode and doubles in size in Best Performance mode.
I have a dual layer superdrive with dvd+r DL's to burn but don't seem to need them?

Hi Vin,
first of all: I'm no pro, esp. concerning compression, but I was allowed to look "over the shoulder" of some pros....
these artifacts you realized are because of low bitrate, tools as "Compressor" (part of DVDSP) allow to set "extra" bitrates for such difficult parts of the movie (you don't set a monolith bitrate for whole movie as iDVD does, but for each sequence); e.g. some action scenes at night - VERY difficult to encode: night should be plain black, but, because mpg just store the "delta" between frames, in low contrast/high action scenes, you see that annoying "blocks".
but for a consumer product, and esp. remembering the concept of the iApps (fill a tape=60min over weekend, throw in, edit =reduce length <60min, burn), the results are perfect!
finally: a commcercial dvd is double layered, so >7Gigs for 2hours.... = same bitrate.....

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... Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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