Idvd Project contents stored where ?

I have an iDVD project that I have burned, I want to be burning discs on multiple macs that are all on same network. How can I accompish this?
I drug the project off my macbook onto my imac, and it tells me the file is in use and locked since the macbook was burning at the time. If I were to drag the actual prject contents over, instead of just the alias woudl that solve the problem? And how would i find those contents? is it a right clikc and view content? any help is appreciated!

relbus:
What you need to do is save the iDVD project as a disk image using the File->Save as Disk Image menu option. Next, mount the disk image and play with DVD Player to make sure the encoding was good. Once you've confirmed that the disk image play as expected on your computer you can copy that disk image file to the other computers and burn using Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed possible. Also use good media like Verbatim-R which is the most respected brand here.
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