Garage band as final audio polish

I've been recording voice over in imovie, rather than garage band, because I edit both picture and audio at the same time, which is impossible in garage band.
I've noticed that the master volume/track volume settings in GB allows for far greater volume control without distortion than imovie. So I was thinking of sending my finished work to GB for a volume lift and then send it to idvd from GB.
Question: Can you drag multiple GB projects to idvd as you can mulitple imovie projects, creating submenus, etc. with each GB project.
Second question: Does GB increase file size significantly?
Third question: Is there any degradation of picture coming out of GB?
Fourth question: Is it my imagination, or does GB do a better job of raising volume without distortion than imovie?
Thanks for you help!

Question: Can you drag multiple GB projects to idvd as you can mulitple imovie projects, creating submenus, etc. with each GB project.
If the projects are exported from GarageBand (usually as "Full Quality" files to your "Movie" folder), you can drag multiple files into a single iDVD project either individually or as a group. However, only a single GarageBand project can be "Sent" to an iDVD project since each "Sent" project will open a new iDVD project.
Second question: Does GB increase file size significantly?
Depends on your work flow. Reconverting a GarageBand project file can increase or decrease a content's file size depending on the codec/settings used. Sending a file to iDVD or exporting to Disk at "Full Quality" should not do so since the original video (with or without a chapter text track) is stored in the MOV file container. The main difference between these two work flows is the audio that is included. GarageBand forwards the linear PCM project audio when it "sends" a file to iDVD and saves the project audio in the original audio compression format when it "saves to disk" at "full quality."
Third question: Is there any degradation of picture coming out of GB?
Not if you use one of the work flows that forwards the original video data without re-compression as described above.
Fourth question: Is it my imagination, or does GB do a better job of raising volume without distortion than imovie?
This I can't say. My wife says I have a tin ear and she is probably correct. It does, however, sound much louder to me.

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