Importing lots of small videos into DVDSP

I have a large number of short clips I need to bring into DVDSP. If I use compressor to save them as mv2 and AIFF, it's difficult to manage them in DVDSP because the audio and video are not linked.
Is there a good export format that will keep the audio and video somehow linked in DVDSP?

FTP?? I think you may mean FCP...
DVD technologies are quite different to NLE technologies in many ways. As you ahve found, the audio can be placed along the timeline at any point, and can have gaps in it, but the video must form a continuous stream. Hence, when you remove a block of video the whole lot moves to the right to remove the gap, but the audio sits where it was.
There isn't a way to move all the audio at once, which is a shame. I would much prefer being able to click and drag over a block of audio clips and move them in one go.
What you could do is construct the sequence outside of DVDSP by using something like MPEGAppend by John Brisbin. You will end up with a single MPEG file made up of the clips you want, and there can be markers set at the 'joins' as well.
The naming of markers does seem odd, too. In your preferences you can set the marker names to be time code based and have them auto update, too. This is a little better, IMO and makes the naming easier to understand... however, makes less sense than a proper name which you can use in a menu.

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