Huge iMovie Project file to big to do anythin with

I imported my first movie clips from 2 super 8 video cassettes. Total run time 130 minutes. This created an iMovie file that is 26.65 GB large. Now I can't burn it to DVD or import it into iDVD. Too big. Why did this import to iMovie so large? Direct to DVD transfer fits on one (or 2) DVDs just fine.
Thanks
Harold

Hi Harold,
welcome to this forum
one hour of dv (which is the internal video compression codec of iM) = ~12Gb
BUT
a video-DVD produced with iDVD can fit up to 120 minutes (not GB...)
anything below 120min can easily transferred to iDVD by clicking on iDVD in iM....- don't care for Gigabytes....
you can seperate your project as discribed above (select a apart, export selection only), or cut off that 10minutes...
besides:
to my knowledge iDVD DOESN'T support double-layers....

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