Making master DVD from FCP Quicktime

Could someone please explain to me exactly what process, every step, I have to do to with my master FCP Quicktime movies in order to make a DVD master using iDVD? Its 4.8GB plus a second film of 2.4GB. Much appreciated!!!

Terry
You can start here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd
but, what do you mean with DVD master?
Besides that, the key factor is not the file size of your source movie but the total lenght in minutes. Why don't you uses DVDSP?
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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