Idvd project won't burn, have I lost my suoerdrive ???

Hi, firstly I'd just like to say I'm an idiot, here's why
I had a large important movie to edit (22gb) in idvd4 on an emac. Did all the work in i movie, sent to idvd but wouldn't burn as I had too little disk space. So I exported from i movie to QT pro and then exported to QT movie and compressed the file , then brought back in to idvd at a suitable size. All good everything working in idvd ( except chapter markers )
Anyway heres the problem, to free up some disk space I previosely deleted loads of stuff I didn't need or use on the computer however I think I may have erased my superdrive/dvd burner using the disk utility. When I look in finder it is just showing the hard drive ? Is this permanent or can I somehow retrieve the situation.
Can I use the restore function in disk utility? How can I see if my superdrive is working correctly or is even there at all ? the dvd player seems to work ok.
What is happening at the moment is everything goes fine with encoding etc but when it comes to saying insert blank disc it just keeps popping them back out asking for a blank disc again. I have tried loads of different discs.
I have an external burner but using toast it won't recognise the idvd project.
This is an important project for me which has took me days to sort so any help greatly appreciated
Thanks

Good morning,
Bengt has good suggestions, so work with his ideas (and you may find your superdrive is just fine, especially since DVDs still play on it). It sounds like you have several things going on.
As he says, first of all, you'll need space on your boot drive for iDVD to work. Your iMovie project and your iDVD project could have been created on an external drive (I use a Firewire drive, and don't know if a USB 2.0 drive would be fast enough). You can recreate your iDVD project and save it to the external drive, but I don't think I'd move the iMovie project at this point because iMovie may get confused where the source files are (anyone have experience with this?).
Second topic - iDVD doesn't want us to compress files and it will attempt to convert anything you give it into the standard DVD format of mpeg-2. iDVD "cares" about length, not the file size. For videos up to an hour, use the Best Performance setting in iDVD preferences. For longer productions, use Best Quality (I don't remember when Apple changed that algorithm from a 90 min max to a 120 min max).
Third topic - your loss of chapter markers is probably the result of exporting and converting, so another reason not to do the file compression.
Fourth topic - disk rejects. This could be a variety of factors (dusty burner, bad or incompatible disks, a Finder setting, etc.). I'd start by using high quality disks (Verbatim DVD-R is often recommended, I also use Sony DVD-R; don't use +R or rewritable disks unless your drive specifically handles them, and note that they are generally less compatible than -R disks).
John

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