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Hi all,
I recently made a presentation with imovie and would like to be able to copy it to a cd in order to delete it of my hard drive (as it takes up a lot of space) and be able to view it with a dvd player.
Ok, so, my questions are these: Is there anyway to compress it to make it fit on a cd? Currently, its to big to burn to one. Is there anyway to format it to be able to view in a dvd player since the G4 I have only comes with a combo drive?
THANKS FOR ANY HELP
God Bless
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Mireth Technology makes a program called iVCD that will let you create a Video CD of your project.
http://mireth.com/pub/ivme.html
VCDs can be played in any DVD player that will accept a CD-R or CD-RW disk. Note, however, that VCDs are not as high quality as DVDs and can usually only hold about 60 minutes of video.
-Doug

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