How do I fit a 129 minute project into one 120 minute DVD?

Hi,
I have finished a 129 minute project that I would like to fit on one DVD. If I use iDVD I will probably need the project length to be around 100 minutes. I can't shorten the project itself to less than 129 minutes.
What are my options? I have heard that there is compression software (Toast?) that can put the crunch on a large video. Will this software save my chapter markers in FCE which I set for iDVD? I really want to use iDVD to finish and burn my DVD.
I know that Final Cut Studio has Compressor but the new version doesn't come out until mid-May and this project is due in ten days.
I read on the Apple site about QT codec H.264. Is that an option? Will that codec work with FCE and iDVD?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brad
imac Mac OS X (10.4.3) FCE 3.5

Take a look at Video and image formats that work with iDVD6. Compressor is not normally a tool that you would use between FCE and iDVD. iDVD prefers DV as input. Compressor outputs MPEG1 & MPEG2 neither of which is accepted by iDVD; and as for H.264 and MPEG4 they would not be good choices as input files to iDVD - you would be recompressing from an already compressed file format back into MPEG2; bad for quality. And despite the fact that Compressor provides more encoding controls than iDVD, you are still looking at basically a 120-minute limit on a single-layer DVD almost regardless of compression settings unless you set the bit rate so very low that you wouldn't like the results. If you want to give Compressor a try, you'll need DVD Studio Pro or another DVD authoring solution, not iDVD.
I still think you only have 3 choices -
- cut enough material so it will fit on a single-layer DVD
- split your movie onto 2 DVDs
- go with dual-layer DVD media (and of course you'll need a burner capable of burning dual-layer media)

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