Going from Media Browser to iDVD

I've exported an iMovie via the Media Browser option. When I launch iDVD how do I get it to use my Media Browser export?
Mary Lou

In iDVD click on Media button and then on Movies. It should be under Movies.
Describe your workflow in steps, i.e. open iDVD, select theme, add media, etc......
Follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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moontroll wrote:
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moontroll wrote:
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moontroll wrote:
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Hi
A. I don't know
B. I think that THERE ARE A MUCH better choice to do - ! ! !
As Share to Media Browser is OK
(I NEVER use Share to iDVD from within any iMovie versions as the result will be bad to even worse)
Use this and Share as LARGE (Not HD - also degrading result)
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If You want even better result then use
• iMovie up to HD6 - or -
• FinalCut any version
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