Gapless playback of video clips

I took a few movie clips on my camcorder and imported them into IMovie HD. I would like to join or stick together all those seperate clips so that when I playback it would be just one long video without any pauses inbetween the clips.
Does anyone know how I can get this done? After I find a way to do this part I am planning on using iDVD to create a home dvd for me.
thanks

You need to place the clips in the clip viewer/timeline at the bottom of the iMovie window and then just play. (Make sure no clips are selected to play them all).

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