Merging clips in iMovie?

Hello.
I am currently making a DVD with content from my nephew's birthday a few days ago... in iDVD I would like to make a button that says "watch movie" but if I don't merge the video files in iMovie, it is going to make a link for each video clip...
So, how do I merge files in iMovie so I can extract it into a .dv-file to use in iDVD?
Best regards
Jesper Pedersen

Actually, as it turns out, I figured it out. All imported clips have an a default "fade in" and "fade out setting". Need to change that to zero, and the gap is gone.

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