File structure question

Greetings,
Sorry for the newbie question....
So if there's an iDVD project which includes a movie called
xyz (there are two files, a quicktime movie xyz.mov and an iMovie project file)
and movie xyz has 3 clips, in order x - y - z
and I duplicate xyz & rename so I now have two new files newXYZ and newXYZ.mov
Can I go in and edit newxyz, changing only the order of the clips, so that they are y - x - z
And then go and exchange the names of the pairs of files
then go and open the iDVD project
will iDVD just use the edited file? Will it get upset if the new file has the clips in a different order? Will it get upset if the edited file is not identical in length down to the millisecond?
Or is this laborious procedure unnecessary - can I edit the original included movie somehow in iDVD itself?
Thanks. Sure would be nice if you could reply to my email in addition to the group posting.......
Chris Lanz
[email protected]

welcome lanzcc to the  board...
Danke sehr!
so, if your files (doesn't matter, what kind of
files....) gets an update BEFORE encoding, iDVD will
allways use the up-to-date version of that file;
This is what I expect, if the software is normal and simple-minded (I'm a programmer) - I'm glad to hear you say this
if
iDVD is IN PROGRESS of encoding,
Oh, no, no, that's not my question, that would be insane....
… or did I completely misunderstood your post?
iDVD should be the last step in the process of
importing, editing and creating a disk... no
back-and-forth-jumps...
Yes, what has happened is, I have changed my mind about the optimal ordering of clips, and I want to go back and change only that single detail - just exchange the position of two clips - I am hoping that iDVD will not notice that the contant of one of the movies it uses has changed since I created the iDVD "project"
This answer depends on the structure & content of the iDVD "project" file - if the project itself includes information extracted from the movies it uses, rather than acquiring that info anew at run-time, then I'm screwed, I have to go back and re-build the project file.
I'd rather just change the one movie and rename movie files to fool iDVD into using the adjusrted one.

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