IMovie burn DVD without using "SHARE"

I have a G4 Combo drive powerbook with iMovie but not iDVD or an internal DVD burner. What will I need to burn my movie without this hardware and software? I do not want to use a compressed file like QuickTime.
Thanks.
sound guy

what Brie meant:
to burn a DVD, you need a DVDburner, a combo drive can NOT burn DVDs, just CDs... that is a hardware issue...
you can use 3rd party tools as Toast to create a socalled SVCD from your iM projects; SVCD is an old standard, using a similiar codec as DVDs burned on CD-rs, the quality is acceptable, better then VHS, but far from DVD; ~40min fit on a disk, most/all DVDstandalones accepts SVCD...
will I need iDVD to save the movie to a specific file type that Toast could see a burn to disc?
..ehm, wot?
iDVD is an authoring, encoding AND burning app, normally, no need to "iDVD-ing" then "Toast-ing"... in iDVD, you're allowed to create a socalled disk image (=file), which can be later been burned with e.g. Toast....
or...
you can drag'n drop iM project into Toast directly to create a videoDVD; but you loose all nice feature iDVD has to offer (individual menus, chapters set in iM etc)
did I understand your Q correctly? (sorry, me alien, me no good english)
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