IDVD Music Question...

This is an off-shoot of a question I had below. I'm putting together a slideshow in iDVD with several thousand images and I need to add music. Obviously I'mt trying to save disc space. Even though I've accepted I'll be burning dual-layer I would love to burn single. That point is neither here nor there though. The real question is: is song file size going to save any room or is it song length, no matter (reasonably) what the song file size is? And on a side note: If you were making slideshows in either iMovie or iDVD what is the best way to get the most images in AND music. I've noticed that even though you can do 9801 images on iDVD, the music option goes away at about 4000 images. The music just takes up too much space.

...a slideshow ... with several thousand images...
wot?!
as Bengt mentioned: videoDVD standards allow a max. of 99 in one slideshow... that's no benchmark of iDVD, that is a standard... you "override" that by using an edit app as iM and create a video stream...
and as J Keller mentioned: iDVD doesn't care for file size, only length of project (max here is <120minutes), an average iM project of 2h contains 30 - 40GB of data => fits on SL 4.7Gb dvd-r ...
just to feed my curiosity:
what "slideshow" contains THOUSANDS of pics???
probably, your nic gives me the answer, and you do a really fast/speed metal inspired "show"... (man, I'm too old for that stuff....)
PS:
120min of NTSC video contain 216.000 frames/pics.. enough?

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