Proper Video Import Format

Currently - I am importing some home movies from VHS using a canopus into iMovie. I have chosen the import format = DV STREAM ...
- I will import the movie - do some editing - and then export it to iDVD5...
- then I modify the template settings and then save as a disk image...
- basically - it has to render all the video - I am guessing to compress into DVD format... this takes a long time
* Question: Since my only concern is to create a DVD ONLY - of this content ( and not to ever save the high-quality dv stream) - would it save me any time to import into iMovie as MPG4 or any other format that is closer to a DVD quality rather then to import as a DV stream? The rendering time in iDVD is where I am trying to save time ... and I am guessing that if it was in the correct format to begin with ... then maybe it would not have to re-render...?
Any time saving suggestions would be appreciated...
Thanks - RevDave

* Question: Since my only concern is to create a DVD
ONLY - of this content ( and not to ever save the
high-quality dv stream) - would it save me any time
to import into iMovie as MPG4 or any other format
that is closer to a DVD quality rather then to import
as a DV stream? The rendering time in iDVD is where I
am trying to save time ... and I am guessing that if
it was in the correct format to begin with ... then
maybe it would not have to re-render...?
Any time saving suggestions would be appreciated...
The answer to your question is NO. Stay with DV stream.
Creating DVDs requires patience (a virtue, right?) and lots of free hard disk space.

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