IDVD 7 won't recgonize an mov file

Hi all
I'm having a bit of a problem. Trying to author a dvd in iDVD because Final Cut suite no longer has DVD Pro (Big and ) . I've put 3 mov files into a folder within my movies folder but when pointing iDVD to the folder it will only recognise 2 out of the 3 files. One file is 653MB (4min 22sec), one 894MB (9min 00sec) and the third is 4.21GB (42min 20sec), all 1920x1080 HiDef. Now I know that added together the filesizes exceed the capacity of a single layer DVD but surely iDVD should be able to compress down to fit a DVD? It's less than an hour of video!
Is this the reason why the third file won't pull into iDVD?
Thanks for any help you guys can give me
Daz

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