Creating DVDs for with up to 150 small individual videos

Hi,
I have about 2,500 videos ranging from 5-120s. I want to create DVDs that have the individual videos on it so I can flip through them easily as opposed to have a joint video file that combines all the videos on the DVD. With a single file on the DVD, I would have to fastforward and could not flip through. Now, I tried a few apps. One has a limit of 99 files which would leave one third of DVD space unused. Another allows adding videos that are bigger than 7s only which would leave out some of my videos. Another one froze in the attempt to create an DVD. IDVD supports only 6 menu items in which case I would have to join my snippets together (and I do not want to do that because I do not want to fastforeward - which would make it harder to find a specific video). So, I am really trying to do a very simple thing and I haven't found an app that can do that. Your help is appreciated.
Thanks,

What you'll need to do is include an index sheet with each DVD showing what clips are in what menus of the DVD. There just no way to have a search done in the iDVD project itself.
Some themes line the Parchment will allow up to 12 submenus/items per menu. I don't know is all themes will allow that many items in a menu. You'll just have to test the theme you want to use. I find the simple, non-animated menus are best for large projects like this.
Those submenus can hold 12 items also but one of them will be the back button to the main menu leaving 11 videos per submenu.
Therefore you can get 12 x 11 = 132 clips per DVD. However, the playing time for all of those clips including menus w or w/o audio must be less than 120 minutes (best to keep it to about 115).
Bottomline you'll need a list of submenus and the clips they contain to go with each DVD.

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