Easy or otherwise: combining multiple complex ivideo projects into one

I'm tempted to [finally] invest in fcp--just a matter of time--but at this particular moment (urgency) the decision would be made for me if I was sure I could do the following, which in imoviehd has proven well nigh impossible. I have six movie projects, each rather complex, that I want to combine into one movie project (for dvd purposes of letting viewer watch the whole movie straight through, in addition to watching each movie [chapter] separately). I've tried several ways to drag and drop the elements from one imovie project into another, but it is not working at all (the transfer starts out okay, but then it indicates the transfer will be, ahem, several thousand minutes to complete. The movies are between 2 and 88 GB, total run time for all six is 37 minutes.
I guess my question is whether someone can tell me that there's an easier way to do this in fcp.
thanks for any edification.

This is stupidly simple in FCP, and authoring the dvd you want is stupidly simple in DVDSP.
I've never used imovie, so I've no idea how that works, but in fcp it's a simple copy/paste from one sequence to another until they're all strung together.
But I dunno how to get your material out of imovie and into fcp unless you export the finished pieces, convert them to .mov instead of .dv and import those.

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