Imovie and exporting to media browser

After reviewing many posts am I correct in these statements?
1. From iMovie11 you should not export to iDVD, but rather media browser, to burn a movie to DVD because the quality will be better.
2. When exporting to Media Browser it is pointless to go higher than "LARGE" becasue a standard DVD does not go higher that the "large" resolution.
Question: is it better to Export higher than large if you are watching on computer or connecting to TV to watch?

Out of Range Error
As I only got
• miniDV tape Cameras - interlaced SD-Video
• and a small still Camera with sort of movie function 30fps 720p I think
and as far as I know - iMovie HD6 is not so keen on Progressive material (Hopefully I'm totally wrong in this)
So I set it to do DV
One more reason is that
• DVD is as Standard = Interlaced SD-Video
• iDVD does the down scaling of HD-material badly
So I keep the line from Camera to DVD as intact as possibly (goes for the Sound too - Never .mp3 or other alient formats - I only use .aiff 16-bit 48kHz or .aiff 16-bit 44.1kHz (from Audio-CDs) and from iTunes I go via Export out to a standard Audio-CD (.aiff) and use the files on this)
By doing so - I've very few problems in my DVD makings.
Yours Bengt W

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I just finished editing my wedding video in iMovie 08 and everything looks great. I need to add chapters so that my relatives can skip to different locations in the movie. I read that the only way to add chapters is to add it to the media browser and then send it into garage band.....create the chapters there and then export it to iDVD. I tried this with a short test movie with only about 2 minutes of footage and it works fine. When I try to add my wedding video to the media browser it starts off and says it will take about 350 minutes to export...it exports for a few hours and then fails with an error (I think the error code might have been -43 but cant remember..and refers to startup disk, I think being too full..)
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Thanks - Justin

1: Is there a way to make chapters without using media browser?
Yes. Garageband should be able to chapter any QT compatible video you can bring into it whether brought in via the Media Browser, the Finder, or "drag 'n dropped" from the desktop. Further, the Media Browser employs H.264/AAC compression as the export default, so while the files are small, it can take hours to compress very long files. You could, for instance, export your project to your hard drive via the "Using QT" export option to a less compressed format such as DV or AIC to your 70 GBs space with an AIC/Linear PCM probably requiring 30 plus GBs or a DV taking closer to 40 and I would normally expect this export to be quicker than H.264/AAC. However, if you still prefer the H.264/AAC built-in preset, use the "Export Movie..." option to select the same size file using the same Media Browser settings, but place the file on your external drive where you want it.
2: If media browser is the only option for chapters how can I get media browser to use the external drive when it is exporting.
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I don't know about you but importing is the bit that I seem to end up getting impatient about, when it comes to exporting I tend to take the approach that my work is done and I usually go and do something else.
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Of course any rendering imovie needs to do is largely on the fly and doesn't get noticed on my MP, rendering in final cut is pretty quick, I've never actually timed it, it doesn't take long enough to start worrying about. Sometimes I get an opportunity to clean my glasses during a render, not very technical but hopefully gives you an idea of the sort of times we are talking about.
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