Creating titles (shortcuts) within the DVD menu

Hi,
Thanks for reading this post.
I recently made a DVD for a client, the dvd was 9mins long and contained 6 different titles within the 1 sequence (main video body). The client has come back asking whether or not i can create a DVD with the 6 titles as options on the main DVD menu for their convenience.
I moderately new to editing/ mac as everything this entails. At the moment i am thinking that i will need to restructure the footage so that the 6 titles have their own sequences which i can then import into idvd individual and burn onto 1 dvd... Is there a much easier way without having to restructure the footage?
Hope this makes sense,
Thanks

You will need to make those 6 different videos into chapters using iMovie, then create a new iDVD project.
I recently made a DVD for a client. I moderately new to editing/ mac as everything this entails
You don't say what versions of iMovie you have, but some or all of these should be helpful to you:
iMovie 6 (and iLife 6) tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/support/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHD_6_GettingStarted.pdf
iMovie 9 tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
A good guide to iDVD 7 can be found here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/idvd_07stone.html

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