Want to degrade project quality & force content to fit on a dual layer disk

I have a project that is around 19 GB in size, according to my DVDSP 3 meter. I want to degrade the quality of the video and force it to fit on a dual layer disk. Is this possible? Or, should I send the project to Toast and compress it there, forcing it to fit?
Here's a description of the project:
I have 240 small 100 MB clips to compile on a dual layer DVD. (It is a teaching DVD).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jake sorry did not see your post till just now...
Hi Drew, not sure why you are saying use 1-Pass CBR and to drop the bitrate really low?
In the past for very static things, such as text or what I though the poster was describing, I found that a CBR works better than a VBR. I am 99.99% sure that Perry was the one who mentioned that way back when and I tried it and it worked nicely, so have been running with it ever since. (Periodically I go back to run some more tests, and so far it has pretty much held true at least for me.)
I think of it this way (and I know you know this stuff:), more from how my head wrapped around it, and was thinking of the more general DVD SP description of VBRs as mentioned below) - in general, if there are no changes between the frames, VBR is not going to allocate different rates since each from uses the same rate, 2 Pass primarily is looking for areas of motion. So for what I thought what was described, CBR would seem the way to go.
Though of course if some sections have more color, etc, maybe it is worth it, for instance one segment has three big color circles on the white board vs just one circle.
The DVD SP guide mentions it is looking for motion areas, though the Compressor guide indicates it is broader than that, so I guess I was thinking more of the motion search as oppossed to detailed areas since it seemed fairly static with not much detail - linear graphics and marks, and then followed through on time of encoding vs possible quality increase.
And the budget idea is the way to go.
Time to rewrap my head

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