Saving an iMovie and Burning a DVD

I'm pretty new at this. Have only had my iMac 2 months but have done remarkably well (and am taking classes). I'm confused about saving a project. Once I make a movie in iMovie and I want to burn a DVD....what do I do? I know I click "share" and one of my Apple trainers said to then click "media browser" but a book I have says to click "iDVD". Can I click Media Browser and then what do I do to burn the dvd???? Seems like there are alot of ways to do everything. Help. I'm dying to burn my Visit to Washington Movie but I'm not sure what to click on!

Hi
You need a book - The Missing Manual of iMovie 09 and iDVD by David Pogue
Love it.
Export/Share to iDVD - referes to iMovie up to HD6 (previous versions)
Now You do - as suggested - Export to Media browser
Close iMovie
Open iDVD
Here import from Media Browser
Select encoding quality - I love Pro Quality (but takes abot double time)
(My Mac 1 hour movie - takes about 2.30h to be done)
Burn
(I usually make a DiskImage first (File and down to Save as a DiskImage) and test
this with the DVD-player tool in my Mac - just to see that everything is OK)
Yours Bengt W

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