Making a DVD from iMovie 8

I have read some of the earlier posts and replies, so I think I know some of the answers to my question (and I'm not encouraged). I have made an hour long movie in iMovie 8 based on video taping I did for business using miniDV. I need to make a DVD of this movie in reasonable quality, with chapters, to distribute to clients to look at. I have iDVD on my laptop but no drive to burn a DVD. I have an external hard drive to store the movie and my wife has iDVD and the capability to burn a DVD on her desk top. I also have an older(6) version of iMovie on my hard drive. Can/should I import this movie onto that version and use it for better quality? Help!!! Thanks.
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Why not just burn it to a disk image file (an option under FILE in iDVD) on you laptop? You can then play it with Apple's DVD Player application (double-click on the disk image file to mount it on your desktop). If everything is the way you want it, THEN use an external hard drive to transfer the disk image file to your wife's computer and use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the disk image file to writable media.

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