Thanks for the replies. I probably didn't take into account menus etc but I also recently noticed that the DVDs only hold 4.3gb not the stated 4.7 that is printed on the disk.
So I just burned it on a dual layer disk with no problems.

Having only just this minute finished burning my first dvd i am a bit dissappointed with the results.

The video quality is very good (when the camera or subject is still) otherwise it is very jerky almost stuttery. The original footage recoreded on a minidvd camera is excellant but I think the stuttering only appeared after encoding with the Panasonic DV codec.

I noticed that when i fast forward x2 the stuttering effect vanishes and the film is very smooth (though twice as fast lol)

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks again for all the help,
Eckie