Why does iDVD enlarge video size?

Hey guys,
I've been trying to make a DVD with iDVD, consisting of some 20+ little clips I shot over the last year. The overall size of these clips is 3.97 GB. However, when I import them in iDVD, it says that it exceeds the available disk space. I can get 4 of my clips on there before it says the disk is full. My settings are: PAL, High Quality, 16:9, Single Layer DVD. Is this normal?
SG

Hi Johnny SG,
Welcome to apple discussions. I see this is your first post to the iDvd forums and you have an excellent question. The answer is as follows:
Essentially iDvd doesn't care about file sizes (with the exception of content added to the dvd-rom section of the dvd). iDvd looks mainly at total run time or QuickTime duration/ playback in hours and minutes. You can burn up to 120 minutes of QT playback (2 hours) on a single layer Dvd-R and about twice this duration for Dual Layer media.
Message was edited by: SDMacuser

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