Imported 1hr of analog video (converted to digital). It requires 3 dvd's!

I imported 1 analog tape (1 hour) using a Sony camcorder to convert the signal to digital. When it was done, it took almost 25GB of HD space and I knew that it wasn't going to fit on 1 DVD. Sure enough, when I went to save it to DVD, it said there wasn't enough space. I had to delete 2/3rd's of the files in order to get it to fit.
So, my question is this: Is there a way to compress the digital video when your downloading it to your HD? I used iMovie but didn't look to see if there are any settings for compression. (I have iMovie 3)
Thanks to all who answer.
- Mark

Analog tapes are typically two hours and digital tapes one hour. So if you imported a full single analog tape, it was more likely a two hour tape. Since DV formatted video takes up about 12-13GB per hour, your report of your project taking up 25GB sounds about right for a two-hour tape. So are you sure it was one-hour?
iDVD version 4 (what version do you use) has two settings in the preferences. One is for Best Performance and the other is for Best Quality. Best Performance limits your iDVD project to 60 minutes or less. Best Quality lets you create projects up to 120 minutes in length. Best Performance (up to 60 minutes) is the default setting of iDVD.
So if you really have a two hour project and iDVD is set to Best Performance, it makes sense you would have to delete a lot of your project to make it fit. If you change the setting to Best Quality you likely can fit everything on there although you still may need to trim down you movie just a bit. "Two Hours" is the nominal length of the tape but in reality it might really come it at, say 124 minutes or something like that. In addition, menus, audio added to menus, etc. all eat up a little of the available time for your project. So a 120 minute movie won't fit if your menu includes a 2 minute song or something like that. The most time you can have with iDVD4 with all the menus is 15 minutes, so if your imported movie was 1 hour and 45 minutes, it would fit for sure. Longer will fit if you don't use the full 15 minutes of menu space or add other extras like iDVD slide shows and such.
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