IDVD 5-burning a large project

I am burning an iMovie project that is a little over an hour and a half (1:34) onto a single layer DVD (4.7 GB). iDVD is saying the project is too long. I have burned projects very close to 2 hours long in the past on previous versions of iDVD with no problems. This is my first project of this length on iDVD 5. Any suggestions as to why I might be having this problem? I really wanted to avoid having to go to double layer DVD's and I don't want to lose quality. Thanks.

Hi, Rodney,
You should be abld to burn your DVD as single layer so long as the total content of the movie, the themes audio and video are not over 2hours.
Did you set iDVD preferences to 'Best Performance' or 'Best Quality'?
You need to set it for 'Best Quality' to burn DVDs that are 60-120 minutes. If you have never had a project this long, you probably have not changed iDVD'spreferences. I believe that the default is 'Best Performance.'

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