IMovie Projects onto CD-RW

I have some iMovie Projects that I would like to put on a rewritable CD instead of a DVD, so that another person can put pictures and a Powerpoint on the same CD for a presentation. Is this possible, and how can it be done? The person doing the presentation will be playing this on a normal DVD player at a conference. So it has to be able to play the projects on the screen like movies.
Thanks for the help,
Eric

in short: no
long answer:
you have a huge misunderstanding in the concept of how 'media' is encoded and stored on a disk
it's not as on analogue tape where you were able to 'insert' or replace parts in a 'video stream'.
a video file, as created with iMovie, is a single, highly complex encoded structure, but not stored a solid 'thing' on a disk. imagine lots of 'blocks', randomly across the disk.
plus, DVDplayers accept DVD-rw, but ot CD-rw as 'video'-media .....
solution:
turn the workflow upside down:
ask the other person to send you the files and you insert it into an iMovie project; burn DVD - done.

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