Keeping A Watermark in iDVD?

Hi All,
I'm having an odd problem that I hope someone can help out with. I'm in the process of creating DVD screener copies of a film I made, and as per the advice of our lawyers, we have 'watermarked' the file before we send it out to distributors and festivals. I made the watermark in Quicktime Pro 7, by which I mean, I imported the film into Quicktime 7, added a basic text file of our watermark ("This film is the property of... not to be reproduced... etc.).
When I watch the film in Quicktime, it appears exactly as it should, but when I bring it into iDVD and render a DVD, the watermark is gone.
Any ideas how I can keep the watermark visible after rendering in iDVD? Alternatively, can anyone suggest a better way to do this?
Best,
Joel

Hi
I think Karsten figured this out
see
karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks
Yours Bengt W

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