Import a movie into a slideshow in iDVD

I am trying to do the steps as discussed by "Nashed" (Feb. 2009) in regards to making the video stop after each chapter in iDVD. However, the dragging of the clips to the slideshow window is not working. Nothing happens. A red dot with the number one shows up on the clip when I drag it, but when I place it in the window it does nothing. How do I import a movie into the slideshow window in iDVD? I am using iDVD6. Still photos import fine.

Thanks. I read the thread.
I am running iDVD6. I set up a test project and tried every conceivable way I could think of to drag a movie into a slideshow, and could not do it--not into the slide show button or the main slideshow editing window, or the slide show window in map view. The movie does end up in the slide show audio well, and I can hear the audio (if I have also put in a photo), but could not see any video. Nor does the movie icon show up in map view or in the main iDVD editing window. I tried dragging the video from the audio well, but that didn't work either. I tried dragging it in from the media pane, my desktop, and from the Movies folder. No luck. I even tried copy and paste, and that didn't work. Playing with the preferences didn't help. I had set up a test project and tried it before I posted my initial response to you saying it couldn't be done. Upon revisiting the issue, I, at least, still can't do it.
Nor could the person in the thread who uses iDVD6 drag a movie into a slideshow. "Nasher" could do it but that poster was running iDVD7. So, I am concluding that the ability to drag a movie into an iDVD slideshow only exists in iDVD7 or later. That would explain why it isn't "generally known".
It would be a cool feature if it could be done. Perhaps the answer in your case is to upgrade to iDVD7.
Hopefully someone on this forum, running either iDVD7 or iDVD6, will see this thread and perhaps can help us out here.

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