How are DVD's finalized on my iMac?

How are DVD's finalized on my iMac?  iPhoto's burnt to DVD okay, but DVD player won't play but wishes to format, which will erase contents.  Player (panasonic) tect. support says DVD must be finalized by computer first  ?????
I attempted iDVD but no understandable help there.
thanks
c

After 6 days of torment, I continually have problems with making a DVD.  Have always thought Mac was THE user friendly machine, but finding this not the case.  Finally thru iDVD help and Apples Discussions guidance have"created a new slideshow program" in iDVD from iPhoto.  Reset aspect to 4:3 as directed, setburn speed to 4x, ran a successful review....all well and ready.  Nope !!!...  window warning...........""Error during rendering/encoding,... burning process cancelled."       Ejected, and reviewed program..everything warning keeps appearing.    What now ???????????????????????   Is that disk corrupted ?????   What do I need to correct??????????    Do Ineed to start a new program from the beginning?  The only two things I can think of is the disk was formated on a DVD player prior to installing on Mac and is a DVD-RW. But the initial burn, altho blurry on TV, was successful.  Now nothing......  Your ‘iDVD help says -RW is okay.  Maybe not best as OT says.
Help.........

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