Is my Imovie to BIG??????

My final project is roughly 10 minutes or so and carries with it 13 gigs.
I don't understand why it's so big...but it is what it is. Will idvd compress the 13 gigs to a smaller file? What size DVD am I going to need? Any other way to reduce the size of the file in imovie before I export?
Thanks

me got it, but I'm not able to make YOU to get my thought... :
in the process of editing, you have lots of baggage, garbage, trash, younameit.. but I won't call it "useless"... you need a few takes to get the right one.. and that decision is made (often) while editing, not while recording ...-
and what I'm telling here anybody who doesn't want to hear it: my audience fall asleep after 20min.. so, it is good movie making to throw away 50min of an hour long tape..
... perhaps more simple: not used, but needed ...

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