Why is exporting an iMovie to iDVD so difficult?

Hi,
I prepared an iMovie, chapter markers and all, then went menu Share -->iDVD, and after two hours of churning away iDVD opened up all by itself, and, voila, everything was there...
EXCEPT that all the scenes had little yellow warning triangles telling me that the movies weren't available because they hadn't been prepared in iMovie menu Share --> Media Browser... It says 7 hours...
What gives?
Thanks,
Klaus

why are there so many different, and seemingly incompatible, compression formats?
As I recently wrote in another thread: When the iApps first came out (about 8 years ago), most prosumer video shooting was done in the DV format (digital video on mini-tape cassettes). DV is an easy format to edit because it is 'lightly' compressed and all the information needed to edit is easily accessible. The newer formats (like AVCHD) are much more highly compressed and are more complicated to work with.
The new formats support HD and higher compression, but since each manufacturer seems to have it's own ideas, we presently have many slightly different formats. This makes it difficult for the average user.

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