Performance of DVD won't encode on anything but Best performance

I haven't been able to change the quality of the dvd from best performance because the box at the bottom just greys out and it stops encoding all together. My movie is too big for being best performance and I would like to be able to change it so I can burn my movie! I have the most recent version of iDVD and I have tried other movies and am having the same problem with all of them. Pleaaase help!!

Did you go to iDVD's Preferences from within your iDVD project?
It is under the top menu bar, iDVD. Click on Preferences, then select the 'Projects' tab, and you should see an 'Encoding' dropdown bar that has the quality options. For iDVD 8/9, these should be: 'Best Performance' 'High Quality' and 'Professional Quality'
'Best Performance' is for projects that are under 60 minutes (for single-layer disks). 'High Quality' and 'Professional Quality' are for projects that are 60 to 120 minutes (SL). Professional quality takes a bit longer than the high quality setting, but the quality differences are probably not noticeable.
You need to change the settings in the Preference file before trying to burn/encode your project.

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To: Wheeler, Steve
Subject: Encore won't encode some PSD files in Flash
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