IDVD and aftermarket DVD burners

I don't have a SuperDrive on my mac. Can I use iDVD and burn to an external DVD burner? I am so new to all of this so any help is appreciated.

Having hung around this forum for a few years, I would agree that LaCie is a very wise choice. That said, a number of LaCie users, even since iDVD5 came out, have come to this forum looking for support. A LaCie Tech, that frequents this forum (http://discussions.apple.com/profile.jspa?userID=93299) or other users have usually been able to help them out, but a number have needed updated disk burning profiles. Just search this forum for LaCie. They may be all inlcuded in 10.4.x, but many users are still using 10.3 and prior, where profiles may be needed.
And I still say the image route has other advantages you are overlooking. 1) the ability to view the final encoded product, 2)the ability to burn at slower speeds for greater reliability on other DVD players, and 3) the ability to do whatever you like while iDVD is encoding, and then let Disk Utility or Toast have your machine to itself while burning. Plus I archive my images on other external drives.
I think the LaCie tech himself has said as much here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1017511&#1017511
Cache cleaning is certainly a good idea, but I don't usually do it for every burn (or image encode).
John B.
G5dual2GHz, 550TiBook, 9600>G3Upgraded   Mac OS X (10.4.2)   1TB+ Storage

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    Russ One - suggest this
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