Export 60GB ( 4h ) of footage to DVD...

Hi everyone ,
I have some videos shot on mini DV tapes and I have recently captured the footage with Imovie.
(60GB of clips, DV PAL .
I don't have the time to edit it at the moment, I 'd like to be able to watch the rough footage from time to time on my TV.
I could obviously export all this to 15 DVDs but I'd like to avoid this process.
Is there a way I can simply compress and export all this to 1 or 2 DVD ?
Thanks for you input
David

Using iDVD, you can fit 2 hours of footage on a single DVD. iDVD doesn't care about file size, just running time.
60GB is a bit more than 4 hours, right? So 3 DVDs is the best you can get down to. You have to make 3 exports from iMovie (or 3 iMovie projects) to do that.
EDIT: Come to think of it, using dual layer discs you can fit 4 hours. But that still makes it two discs and they are more expensive than single layer discs.
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