Finished FCP file too big to burn and quality is needed.. Please helpp me

I've just completed a 40 minute project that i've been working on for months on Final Cut Pro 5.1.4. I exported it as a Quicktime movie and the finished product is 8.8 GIGS. I have both iDVD and Toast, and have tried for the last two days straight to get the file on a DVD with no success. The major factor is that i don't want to compromise the videos quality that much because it is filled with fast moving transitions and color filters. I've tried burning it directly with both Toast and also iDVD, thinking that the compression tools may take care of it and salvage the quality, but both programs were unsuccessful. I've tried making an iDVD file and saving it as a Disk image, then burning with Toast but the quality was extremely jittery and off color. I am out of ideas! I would really just like this 8.8 GB FCP movie file to be on a DVD with some good old quality. If anyone is willing to help I would be more than grateful. Like I said i own iDVD, Toast 10 and FCP (if a different application is what I need then please enlighten me). I'd even be willing to make this a data disk if that's the best way to salvage its quality, but I'm also unknowlegeable about how to compress it and do that (help with that would be appreciated also). I'm sure it is possible to get this to a playable disk, whether it is a DVD or not.. beggars cant be choosers, i just need the best quality possible. Thank you to whoever's brilliant mind is capable of helping me through this pain and frustration.
-Feracuffz

I am not sure if all of the clips are DV-NTSC. I would guess no, a good portion of the sequence is imported forage from a video camera but it is combined with videos taken by a digital camera and I also included a segment ripped from a DVD by the program Handbrake. (The video is a compilation of clips for friends that I studied abroad with)
Yes, I made sure everything was rendered before I exported it.
The file that I attempted to burn was a Quicktime Movie and I did make it self-contained. I am currently exporting an .avi copy through Quicktime Conversion in an attempt to try something different. Would making it a reference file shrink it enough to fit a DVD?
There may have been another app running while I attempted to burn, but I left the computer after I began the burn so there was no activity by myself during the process. I was running other apps as I exported the file from FCP.
I have been working on this for about a month and it has eaten up a lot of my hard drive, which was running low to begin with. There has been about 20 GB every time I’ve attempted a burn. I believe I have about 16 now which I can free easily. The scratch with the captured footage is on an external passport HD connected by a USB. My passport HD was the only thing connected through USB at the time, my mouse and keyboard are Bluetooth.
Im planning on attempting to burn with this .avi copy that I have just made (which probably wont work now that im thinking about it) and then ill try making a reference movie of the project and attempting a burn. Thank you for all your help Martin its extremely helpful.

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