Three questions on audio volume, widescreen, export

Hello,
I am in the heat of building my 40 minute slideshow imovie hd6 to idvd 08 project with some important questions.
first question: I have lots of voice audio and music loops which have been nicely edited, cleaned, normalized - all WAV files, high output, no distortion. I imported these to test into imovie then idvd and played on TV, and it was really LOUD. And some of the voices distorted a bit, and the music almost blew my speakers. I had the volume way down. Is idvd normalizing all the audio? What is happening? If I understand it, I can workaround it in Audacity. Just drop the gain a bit?
second question: I am confused about the standard vs. widescreen. I have been thinking about doing the project in widescreen, the dvds will be distributed to folks, free of charge. My format is PAL, I live in Spain. A film making friend told me that 50% of people had widescreen tv's these days. I'm confused.
third question: I want to both make a dvd with idvd and also have a master copy to give to production company who would rather have it in .mov format to make copies. What is the best way to export getting maximum quality of image and sound, but that I can transport to someone?
thank you,
Jenifer
ps I have crossposted to imovie hd6.

Hi
1.
iMovie 1 to HD 6 mainly are intended for two kind of materials (as I get it)
• Video - StreamingDV (as from a miniDV Camera) and via FireWire
• Audio - Except from Camera also .aiff 48kHz 16-bit
I would
• Convert the audio to .aiff 48kHz 16-bit
2.
Don't really understand. Most DVD-player can be set to match the Play-back device
eg Widescreen or CTR-TV
3.
DVD is a final product with a very reduced quality.
I only use miniDV tape and standard 4x3 TV-video as my material and to keep Maximum
Quality I always Copy-back to tape and deliver this. Then the reciever get's
100% of original quality.
If You use 16x9 HD then I don't know if Copy-back to tape is a working solution
for You. There are HDV-Cameras using a very similar tape as miniDV and this
should also keep Max Quality.
Yours Bengt W

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