Slideshow in imovie. Concerned about size

I am making my first slideshow in Imovie. I am concerned about the size of the project and getting it burned to a DVD. There are about 650 photos which are about 4.2GB. There is also music. I know that the standard DVD is about 4.4 GB. I just read that the number and size of the photos do not matter as long as you keep the movie under two hours. Is this true?
Thanks for the help,
Charlie

Hi Charlie,
Yes, you will be fine providing the project is under 2 hours if you are using single layer DVDs. This time includes provision for iDVD menus, which generally use less than a few minutes, depending on the complexity of the menu structure (such as the inclusion of scene selections/chapters). iDVD cares only about the duration (as in running time), not the size (as in GBs).
For iDVD projects over 1 hour you need to choose the encoding settings High Quality or Professional Quality. For projects under 1 hour choose Best Performance. Note that Professional takes about twice as long to encode (compared to High Quality), as it does a two pass operation - but gives the best quality overall. However, I use High Quality and get excellent results for projects over 1 hour.
About a year ago, I produced a slideshow for a family friend. It contained a similar number of photos as in your project and, together with transitions, contained 1280 items plus many titles, chapter markers and music tracks. Total running time was 56 minutes. It covered a trip from Adelaide to Darwin and right around the west coast of Australia, then back to Adelaide along the southern coast. It looked great in iMovie (think it was iMovie '09) and looked just as impressive on DVD via iDVD when played back on 2 separate LCD high definition widescreen TVs (better than I expected).
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