Importing two Quicktimes into iDVD?

I'm attempting to join a Part 1 and a Part 2 video I made...together as one iMovie...but having some kind of "parse" issue.
I had problems last couple weeks with stutter issues and many clips...and I converted the clips to several Quicktime share .aiff files and will try later to import those into my movie project. Folks here helped me get thru the stutter issue, thanks.
Someone mentioned one possibility was that I could convert both Parts 1 and Parts 2 to some high end Quicktime movie...then open up iDVD with an open file and import both those movies there with care not to import them into the menu file. Okay, I can kind of visualize that...but, my question is...will this conversion to Quicktime affect video quality done this way? Secondly...what happens to the chapters I created in iDVD of each of the two parts? Are they recognizable in iDVD imported as Quicktime? Will the two separate parts imported into iDVD remain as separate parts 1 and 2...or is there a way they will or can be joined into one movie?
thanks

Which version of iMovie do you have? Version 5?
I have iMovie 5
There are a couple ways to go about it. One, if you
have the drive space, is to start a new iMovie
project. Now go to the Finder, find your first
project.
Brought up Finder...
If iMovie5 and later, right click on the project and
pick "Show Package Contents" to get into the folder
structure.
Here I ran into a problem...
eMacs and their mouse don't as I know have a right click option as do PC's...
I did pop on another mouse in our Mac lab that was on another computer called a macally iMouse...which has a right clicker...but when I held the cursor over the iMovie project in the Finder...and right clicked, nothing happened. I held it down for awhile also, but no options came up for anything.
If you have an idea why the mouse is not doing that...I'm so close to finishing this project.
We should be getting our new Intel Duo 2 Core this week...and hopefully soon the 500GB external drive along with it.
I guess I could attach the external drive to the macs in our mac lab...save the projects to the external drive, and THEN perhaps something will happen, the mouse right click. I don't know.
I guess what I'm saying is perhaps the macs being on a network server do not operate the same as a stand alone machine.
appreciate your help...
Larry

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Does Final Cut Express 4 actually edit .mov and .mp4 files, or does it convert them like IMovie does?
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