Files too big can I compress to fit

Ok great gurus of the Mac world.....I have a project I just finished in final cut. I would like to put three different sections of movies onto one DVD.
Problem #1 - The three movies run 7 minutes, 90 minutes & 110 minutes. I imported into idvd thinking that size was not a problem however, it tell me there is too much time and I need to remove some of the files.
Is there a way to convert these files to make them fit onto one DVD or am I stuck with burning to dual layer?

I have a total of six chapters. I was going to split it in two going 3 on one dual layer and 3 on the other. I have the first three lined up in idvd and it looks like it's 174 minutes. In the project info. that is 5.63 gigs at the professional quality setting. The high quality setting was up to 9.2 gigs.
I am working on the second section. It will be a bit bigger but not much.
I have about 150 of these sets to produce. They are going all over. It's a cheerleading video of all things and I sold it as an entire set. Just trying to keep the cost of production down however, I think the dual layer is my easiest way to go as it looks like it will fit on the two discs.
I am not real familiar with compressor so no, I did not try that. Is it worth trying?
Thanks so much for the help.

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