IDVD not understanding source file size.

I'm trying to make a DVD with several different movies. They have all been encoded the same way, but have different lengths. The shorter clips are under 15 minutes, but the longer clip is over and hour long. I re-encoded the longer clip to bring down the file size and it is currently just 600 MB. iDVD sees it as over 4GB. Am I doing something wrong, or is iDVD messing up?

iDvd doesn't look at file size but rather duration / QT Playback. The most you can get onto a SL DVD-R is 2 hours or 120 mins. And about twice that for DL media.
How long is the combined length of all your movies? Hopefully the combined length isn't over 120 minutes (assuing you plan to use single layer Verbatim or Maxell Dvd-R). If your movies exceed 2 hours then you may wish to use Dual Layer instead of Single Layer Dvd's (assuming your mac will write to this newer media).
Hope this info helps but if not just come on back.
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