Trying to Export my 1-1/2 hour project to iDVD

Lost the first attempt to create this one, forty hours..files accidentally lost, now all rebuilt and don't want to mess it up this time. Will appreciate your help very much.
I tried to export..chose Quicktime Movie...and having a few chapter markers, selected "Chapter Markers" (not knowing if just choosing the DVD pro markers works just as well). Took about thirty minutes to complete, but saw no file in my Movie folder that show a "Quicktime" file...instead saw the movie saved as a Final Cut Express Movie File. Maybe that's how it works, I don't know.
I opened iDVD to start the project, picked my theme...and when I dragged the movie over from my media...said this-
"Your project exceeds the maximum content duration. To burn your DVD, change the encoder setting in the Project Info window to Best Quality."
I looked to see where the export to Quicktime Movie gave such an option, that "Project Info Window" and appeared only the Quicktime Conversion option in exporting did. But so many options, filters, size stuff...over my head, and appeared to be for web streaming and everything but making dvds.
Can someone help me? Thanks in advance

Incidentally, for projects up to about 65 minutes you should use "Best Performance" which is what iDVD was originally set to.
It gives you the highest quality and the fastest encoding times.
Unfortunately it can't be used for projects more than about 65 minutes because the video would not fit on the DVD.
That is why you have to use "Best Quality" which will takeabout twice as long to encode.
"Pro Quality" will give a slightly better quality though you may not notice the difference and it will take twice as long again to encode . . . . or 4 times longer than "Best Performance".

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I have just finished editing a project and am trying to export a QT file to be used in IDVD or toast and am wondering if I am going about this in the right way.
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Is my work flow good? Do I just need to be patient and make **** sure thatr project is exactly the way I want it before export?
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Ok, so you captured the HDV footage as AIC. Can you double check and report back the actual Item Properties for one of these captured clips ... select one in the browser and press Cmd-9 then post back with the settings listed there. Do likewise for you sequence.
Then you edited and exported a reference movie ... thats fine if you need to save disk space and you're not intending to use AIC as your edit master version, but still a self contained export would be more robust and further processing would generally be faster/more reliable than working with a self contained media file.
(A bit off the point, but I also note that you say that +the Lacie is where my project file, media, etc. are on"+ ... Danger, Will Robinson! Or at least, potentially so. Don't throw all your Easter Eggs in one basket. Make sure your project file is not stored in the same physical location as your Autosave Vault directory, else if the drive fails you'll have no means of recovering all your hard work.)
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