Quicktime movies too large to import to iMovie

I am trying to import a few quicktime movies into imovie to make a montage of videos on a dvd. However, the quicktime movies are high quality, and the largest one is about 9 Gigs. I don't know why they are so big, as the movies are only about 5 minutes long, but imovie won't let me import them. Is there anyway around this? Any help would be appreciated.

If I have an imovie project that is 10GB, I will still be able to use iDVD to burn it onto a DVD disk with only 4.7GB of disk space?
Yes!
iDVD automatically compresses the DV file from iMovie to the standard DVD format mpeg2, which is why a DVD can hold up to 2 hours of video.

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