Want to burn iMovie to external LaCie DVD+RW

there must be a better way! no super drive but yes toast 6 titanium----Will toast compress or even handle a 12 gig iMovie and create a DVD? And why won't toast except ALL the files in iMovie. AND, is there a way to burn iDVD to my LaCie external? If so how do I save the iDVD file and export it to toast? iDVD seems to want to freez up when finished with the making of the DVD and there's no 'save as' in the menu and so on....
Is there a way to compress iMovie? (quick time?)
thanks

there's no 'save as' in the menu and so on....
There is "Save as Disk Image" in the iDVD file menu. This will make a disk image that you can burn with Toast 6.
iDVD seems to want to freez up when finished with the making of the DVD
Is this during audio encoding? If so be patient and wait wait wait wait for iDVD to finish.
John B.

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