Simple Instructions for pasting video into IDVD 3 and burning DVD?

Many times I have tried to paste a video file into iDVD 3 and then tried to burn but it does not work, you click the burn icon in iDVD and it does not ask for a disk. I have a 700MB video file, it is in .avi originally but I can convert it to a different file type if needed, what file types burn in iDVD? And how do you paste the video file into iDVD 3 properly so it will burn? Because I must of been doing something wrong. I have -R disks.

Hi
iDVD 3 - is rather old and
iDVD 3 (2003)
• Chapter markers can be added
• Menu themes that can be adapted to movie
Need Mac OS X.1.5 or rather X.2.2
.avi - is most probably the problem as it is no video format - but a container
Containers:
.avi, .mov, .mp4, .m4v, .wmv etc - are no video format/codecs but containers
Formats/Codecs:
MPEG-4, H.264, AIC, streamingDV and many more are Codecs - this can or can not be opened by iMovie, iDVD or FinalCut so this info is important.
So convert the codec inside it to streamingDV .dv or to AIC and You can import it into iDVD from File Menu down to Import.
To find out what's in the .avi container
- Open it with QuickTime-player and here
- open Inspector (cmd+I) and
- read Video Format/Codec: nnnnnnnn
What does it read ?
As I remember it - Yours Bengt W

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