Does iDVD 6 Compress Movies?

I've just finished editing a final cut express movie. I've already exported it as a quicktime movie. The file is 5 gigabytes, I've tried to burn this movie and other movies of even higher size using iDVD '06 onto DVD Rs and DVD RWs. It has never worked. Is this because iDVD doesn't compress the movie files prior to burning them on the disk? If not, what do I do to solve this problem? PLEASE HELP! It's been like this for 2 years!
Dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

ok, well i stil don't know the exact format of your movie, but i'll give some general advice. based on the type of file you are making, the content of the movie, and bitrate you burned it with, iDVD may or may not be able to compress it enough to fit it on a disk.
a good bit of advice is to set your encoding type to "best quality", as this will use a variable bitrate that tends to conserve space with limited campacity media. the problem is, if you are using an mpeg-4, it has already been very highly compressed! there is only so much iDVD can do to compress a movie to fit on a DVD, and if that source has already been highly compressed using mp4, then you may be out of luck.

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