Movie too large? Compressor??

I just finished editing our "Trip to gramda's" movie. It's too large for iDVD. Tho it's 2-1/2 hours, it's also about 24GB.
This seems like a job for Compressor; any suggestions on which settings are best for A)getting it onto DVD (single layer) and B)keeping the quality the best it can be?
thanks!
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iDVD doesn't take Compressor crunched files. It only takes full rez movies, as it does all the compression internally.
2.5 hours is LONG! A Trip to Grandmas might put people to sleep. I mean, I have been to people's houses where they had shorter slide shows and...
Sorry...all kidding aside, I think that iDVD will take anything over 2 hours. And even at 2 hours, it is compressing it at a higher compression.
Looks like you are going to have to break it into two.
Shane

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