Fit a 2 hour iMovie on ONE DVD with iDVD??

I have a 2 hour movie in iMovie. I have shared it to iDVD and cannot burn it to one DVD. I've been told that other programs offer settings where I can lower the quality to fit it on one DVD... however I cannot find the settings in iDVD. I do see one setting where I choose from "Best performance, High Quality, or Professional Quality" ...it's already on Best Performance which I assume is the lowest quality. ANY IDEAS on how to change video in iMovie or iDVD?? Thanks!

The encoder settings you need is for 120 mins or less of QT playback which is High Quality (a bit of a misnomer IMO).
To paraphrase David Pogue's book on iDvd, with Best Performance, iDVD allots a pre-determined fixed amount of data to each frame of video, even if most of the disk will be empty. The burning process is faster and the quality is great. With Best Quality, iDVD uses the entire disk by analyzing the amount of video, dividing it into the amount of space available so that the amount of information in each individual frame varies from project to project. It takes longer to burn, but gives two hours of great video.
In regard to Roxio Toast, it does have an option for Fit to DVD in the form of a simple check box which is highly useful as well.
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Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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