IMovie to DVD issues

Hello,
I am new to using iMovie and wondered if someone could help me with the following issues:
1- I have inmported my video clips into iMovie and sorted them out, the file size of them all is 17gb, which i was told i can get to fit on 1 DVD, i was told a good method was to use the shre to quicktime option which would reduce to a dvd, but i dont seem to have this option. I have tried it with iDVD but this says that the movie format is incorrect even thought its come straight from iMovie.
2- If i use iDVD is there anyway to get just straight video without the menu systems?
3- basically i wanna know the best way to get my raw footage onto a dvd?
thanks for any help offered.
1.8ghz G5 iMac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

1- There is a Send to iDVD option in iMovie, which you should use. Optionally, you can quit iMovie, open the iMovie project folder and drag the .mov file onto iDVD.
2- What's the fuzz about the menu system? There are many posters asking about that. Haven't you ever played a commercial DVD?  ;-)
Anyway, you can customize the DVD. I use a still from the movie as a background and just two buttons: "Play movie" and "Select chapter". See the iDVD tutorial included in iDVD.
3- That depends on what you mean. "Raw footage" as in still editable (which you can't watch on TV)? Or a compressed movie that you can't edit, but can watch on TV?
In the former case, I use Toast. In the latter iDVD.

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