Dragging iMovie Clips into iDVD

I'm creating a iDVD project consisting of a full iMovie and a submenu containing several selected clips from that iMovie. In the submenu I drug several iMovie clips over (from iMovie which was open) and iDVD created a Movie button for each. Problem is that for any of the clips that were originally cropped in iMovie, the uncropped clip version comes across into iDVD and goes from a 16:9 to 4:3 format. When I check in iMovie, the clip is showing up as cropped and in the correct format.
After checking the forums I tried the recommended method of selecting clips individually and exporting thru Quicktime and then importing into iDVD. Doing this the cropped version of the clips come across correctly but I still loose the 16:9 aspect.
Am I missing a setting/option somewhere? Any suggestions or ideas?
Thanks,
Mark

Thanks for the suggestion. I dowloaded the QuickTime 7 version but when I attempted to process the clip I was instructed to do a "Save As", but since I do not have the Pro version of QT that's not an option. Any way around that?
What's really strange is that on a previous iMovie/iDVD project I simply dragged the clips and everything worked fine.
Mark

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Hi,
the iMovie project was created as "DV" project and I imported DV PAL clips. The iDVD preferences are also PAL (25fps) and the quality setting is "professional quality".
I've also tried the setting "best performance" within iDVD (as suggested within this forum), but with the same poor result.
I can see within the iDVD "project info" that iDVD will use "mymovie.mov" within the "Shared Movies->iDVD" of the iMovie project (Show package contents).
As this converted movie is of low quality, I think this is the root of evil.
If I export the movie from iMovie with "Export as DV stream" and import this converted movie into iDVD the quality is ok - but I lose the chapter markers ..
Is there any way to keep the chapter markers?
Kind regards.

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Problem dragging a clip into the timeline.

Hi
I'm having problems dragging video into my timeline. I can drag audio in but not video.
I've completed projects before and never had any problems, this happened halfway through a project and I can't seem to get it to work.
It will let me import audio but not video?
Many thanks
Mike

Did you targeted or source patch a track?
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Dragging iMovie Clips into iDVD

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