IMovie cropping is ignored when move clip to iDVD

I'm having an annoying problem. I have an existing iDVD project that I want to add some clips to. I have edited some new clips in iMovie and I want to send them to iDVD. I can't share or export them to iDVD because it creates a new iDVD project. I can drag my cropped clip from the clips windows in iMovie directly to a submenu in iDVD but when I do this it puts the entire original clip in, not the cropped one. I have tried importing an iMovie project within iDVD but it only imports whatever is in the timeline. This is a problem because I need each clip on the DVD to play and then return to the main menu so I have not put any of my clips into the timeline. I know I can export my cropped clip into a quicktime file and then import it into iDVD but I have over 40 clips! There has got to be an easier way to get cropped clips into iDVD. Help!

Well the solution would be to export each clip out as a "Full Quality DV file" (from the timeline) then drag all of the DV files to iDVD. This would provide you "return to main menu" functionality.
Daniel C. Slagle
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