While burning a DVD-R this comes up: "Where is iDVD?"

iMovie was bought as a standalone app, I've never owned iLife or the now discontined iDVD.
Just for fun I right-clicked a Project to Share to iDVD. iMovie prepared the Project, took an hour.
When finished, the question popped up: "Where is iDVD?" That was predictable.
I dragged the video, which is an mpg4, 580mb, from the "All Videos" folder and burned a DVD-R.
Clicked the icon, plays great in iTunes or QuickTime.   
Since I put chapters inWondering if there is a chapter list

CONTINUED!
Sorry I didn't finish the preceding:
Ed Gerson
May 22, 2012 8:16 AM
iMovie was bought as a standalone app, I've never owned iLife or the now discontined iDVD.
Just for fun I right-clicked a Project to Share to iDVD. iMovie prepared the Project, took an hour.
When finished, the question popped up: "Where is iDVD?" That was predictable.
I dragged the video, which is an mpg4, 580mb, from the "All Videos" folder and burned a DVD-R.
Clicked the icon.
Plays great in iTunes or QuickTime. Apple DVD Player doesn't recognize the video at all.
Don't know how to drag and drop the vid into a DVD-R which contains a play list with chapter markers.
Just got iMovie. You might have guessed it!

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