Burning a DVD of the film in iMovie

Hi all

I'm running El Capitan on an iMac (2012) older which has iDvd but I can't use it.

Basically I have a home video 15-minute clips of friends wishing someone good luck.  It was filed in iMovie and said its 12 GB.

I want to burn onto a dvd but my dvd all say that the file is too big.  I can't believe a 15-minute short clips home video, from people saying 'Hi' is too big to burn.

Can anyone help?

Hi, Windym,

iDVD is a design program that allows you to record a video of two hours on a standard DVD.   Two hours is about 26 GB, that iDVD will compress to 4.7 GB to fit on a standard DVD.  Your 15-minute project will easily adapt.  It is best to have at least 20 GB of space free on your startup disk disk so that the application can work correctly.

Can you describe the procedure and the applications you use, and the error messages you get?  You really want to use iDVD or maybe you burn a DVD, data that are much more limited in size, that you can burn?

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