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I've just purchased a Pioneer DVD/HDD (VHS finally passed on) to sit under the telly, thinking I'd be able to burn iMovie projects to disc, pop them in the Pioneer and watch them on TV. This doesn't seem to be the case, though. Can anyone tell me if this can be done and how to do it?
I have 10.5.1.
Thanks.

You don't indicate what sort of Mac you have and if it has a superdrive (able to burn DVDs) but if you have 10.5.1 I'll assume you do.

You should be fine....in iMovie 6, you'd share your movie to iDVD and burn a disc. In iMovie '08, you'd (this from the help menu)....

* Select it in the Project Library, and then choose Share > Media Browser.
* Select the size that best matches what you’ll be using the video for. For iDVD, the Large size is best.
* Click Share. Rendering can take up to several minutes depending on the size of your movie. It will also take longer if you render more than one movie size at once.
* Open iDVD or your other application and then look for the rendered movies in the Movies window or iLife Media Browser.
* For best results in iDVD, select the largest movie that’s available.

Phil

Thanks Phil, I've finally succeeded.
I think I had a couple of dodgy discs. I tried an unused DVD-R and it worked perfectly.
Chris.

If you are burning DVD's for playing in DVD players my experience has been that they can be somewhat fickle. They will play in some players but not in others.

I usually burn to DVD+RW as they have a different structure than DVD +/-R discs. RW's seem to play okay in all players. Also once your DVD plays okay you can copy to a DVD+/-R later on.

Check out http://www.videohelp.com/ where they have heaps of really useful info. Enter your make and model of DVD player and you will get a list of users comments particulary on what discs play best.

I'd have to disagree with some of that...and please keep in mind that not everyone can burn to the same formats (to find out which ones you can, go to the "About your Mac" option in the apple menu, select it, then select "More info" and click on "Disc burning"...I've found that most of the issues relate to the age of DVD players. I have a friend with a very expensive Denon DVD player that costs thousands years ago...it can't play many DVDs he created, yet a newly purchased $60 player from the supermarket copes fine.

The first thing I tend to ask if someone has issues with a DVD I make (and I tend to burn in DVD-R mostly) is "How old is your DVD player>" and then "Have you tried it on another machine?". In one batch (going out to about 100 people) this was always the issue

Also...my golden rule when buying blank DVDs is "buy to the speed"...so if your DVD player says it can burn at 4x speed, then buy SPECIFICALLY that speed...not ones that bill themselves as 1-8x speed or anything like that. It gets increasingly harder to find discs with a specific speed at times, but when I do, I have few issues with burning and viewing.....or that's just what I've experienced.

Phil