Final Cut Express and iDVD

[jetskiak22]

A family member wants me to capture their home videos and place them on dvd. I'm completely capable of capturing with final cut express. I want to retain the original quality and at the same time try to fit as much as 2 hours of video onto DVD-R. I am using iDVD to burn the DVD. What is the best way to do this using final cut express. Is there a certain format I should be converting it to or what? Any advice would be appreicated. Thanks.

[terryj]

IF you are using FCE:
1. Edit video as necessary
2. Save Edited Project as Quicktime Movie
3. import into iDVD, and use a minimum Menu,
not so heavy on the navigation animations/movies,
to give you more bitrate for your actual video.
4. Burn.

I haven't used iDVD in a long while, but IIRC that is the gist
of it.

[mike47]

i dvd will only allow you one hour on to a dvd
which f****** sucks!

did FCE come with any authoring software?

[terryj]

What version are you using Mike?
Apple says iDVD6 will allow 2 hours of content