Overly Huge Files when Importing from DVC tape to IMovie

When importing from my Canon ZR 600 60 minutes of tape equals 16.1 Gigs
I am looking for what I am doing wrong I have 10 hours of Disney I would like to turn into 5 dvd set not 15 dvd set. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Gregory
About 13-14 Gb per hour miniDV tape movie is as iMovie (QT) works. When
it is stored down to a DVD disk it will be converted into a working format for
DVD disks and that will mean that 1 hour will take up a DVD disk in max
quality and 2 hours in slightly less quality. iDVD doesn't care about how
many Gb Your movie takes up in iMovie or FinalCut JUST the amount of minutes
this includes the DVD menues that also need spaces.
55 min movie and 5 min for menues is OK in max qual.
115 min + 5 for slightly less.
You also need to think about how much free space there is on Your hard disk.
After Your 115 min movie is ready to go to iDVD there should be about 20Gb
free space left or iDVD will run into problems.
Yours Bengt W

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