Movie file size when burning to dvd

Another question in one day, sorry!
Ive noticed that the movies folder which contains an imovie project constantly keeps a fullsize quicktime file in there which can be viewed in quicktime, with no need to open imovie. In my case its an 11 minute movie originated from mini dv.
The filesize is around 2.44gig, but when i use toast 7 to burn this to a standard 4.7gig dvd, it only uses around 640mb of space.
Am i getting full resolution onto the disc? and why, when there is plenty of space on there does toast need to compress it down? Id have thought the compression was only necessary in a 'fit to disc' situation.
Would the quality be higher if the full 2.44 gig was being burned to the dvd?

There is data rate limit on a DVD, so what you see is reasonable for an 11 minute movie.
The 2.44 GB iMovie project uses the DV codec, a video DVD uses the MPEG-2 codec, so burning the DV files will do you NO good (except as a backup).

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