IDVD Dual Layer Disks From Final Cut

i have made my 1 hour and 37 minutes of footage from an HD camera saved as a .MOV file thats 97 minutes in total. i have tried to make a DVD in iDVD and it says too much content exceeds the disk limit on a standard DVD. is there a way of getting this footage to disk to watch on a DVD or do i have to buy the dual layer +dvd? and go down that route?
i seriously cant see why i cant just burn a dvd from the computer on a standard dvd but it is the menu's that bulk out the file. as long as it gets to DVD i dont mind losing the menus as long as it plays on other dvd players and not just my super drive?

You do not have to make your movie size smaller. As long as the content of your movie, the iDVD menus and submenus is under 120 minutes, and you choose 'High Quality' or 'Professional Quality' setting in iDVD's preferences, you can burn to a single layer DVD. iDVD automatically compresses the data to fit.
Be sure to use a good brand of DVD disk, such as Verbatim, Maxell, Taio Yuden. Many people have had problems with store brands, TDK and Memorex.
Burn at a slow speed of 4x or less.
I have burned many movies to DVD; most were around 25-30 GB in size, but some were 60-100 GB. All were under 120 min, and all burned fine.

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Generally, I just drag the DV file from the finder to the iDVD menu window. Make sure you don't drag it to any Drop Zones, I think that might be your problem with the DV file showing up as the background. If you have default settings in iDVD, this drag and drop should then create submenus based on your chapter markers.
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