Putting my project on DVD

I have a 20-minute long iMovie project, which I now want to put on a DVD. Unfortunately I have no DVD burner on my iBook. Can I save my project onto an external drive and then burn on onto DVD on another computer (not an Apple). I have tried to save the project directly to an external hard-drive, via the 'share this project' menu item but when the 'compressing' window, it just closes without saving. Any reasons why? Can anyone think of another way to burn my project onto DVD?
Also, can anyone recommend any decent Apple-compatible external hard-drives and DVD burners?
Thanks,
Will

You should be able to do this with the Easter Egg workaround to burn a disc image which can then be burnt to a DVD-R using Disk Utility. Share is only an option in iLife5 and beyond but this does the same for you
It is also called "Hurz and Pfurz", and is available as a free download from
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0015-burn_idvdother.html.
I also suggest you get another free download Mac Sweeper which you will find on http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Mac-Sweeper.shtml
Now I would recommend the following steps but first make sure there is about 20GB free on the internal HD then:
1) Shut down/Restart without any applications running.
2) Run Mac Sweeper carrying out all the optimize options including repair permissions and, under clean, empty caches.
3) Launch iDVD and the project
4) "Burn" a copy to disc to hard disc using the Easter Egg workaround.
5) When the run is finished examine the DVD image and play it using the DVD player in the applications folder
6) If and when satisfied and burn a copy using Disc Utility, full instructions on
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724
but you just use the second half to burn the DVD.
You may be able to do this but transferring the disc to a PC but iDVD needs discs formatted for Mac so you might have to burn the image then copy to a PC formatted disc.
I hope this helps.

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