How do I backup Quicktime videos to DVD?

For some reason, my digital camera records movies in quicktime format.  I also recently purchased an iPad and I have started taking short home videos on that as well.  I want to back these movies up onto a DVD (or by any other method that people might suggest) but for some reason I cannot burn the quicktime videos. My main reason for wanting to do this is to preserve the movies (they are movies of my kids that we'll want to watch many years from now, long after my computer and iPad are dead).  The second reason is to free up space on the iPad.
An alternative question would be:  What is the best way to backup home video to preserve them (forever) and free up space on my devices?

Buy an external hard drive and copy the files to that.  It will be cheaper in the long run than burning to DVD, a lot easier and faster to do, and optical media can go bad with time.  If this is the only copy of these movies, buy two drives because hard drives can suddenly die on you too.
Look into gettting something like the http://newertech.com/products/voyager_index.php which lets you use multiple bare drives for archiving purpurses rather than having to buy multiple enclosures.

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