Merging movies in iMovie & iDVD

I have created a number of small (approx 7 minute) movies as parts of a 2 hour travel movie. I have tried to merge some in iMovie. The video clips copy & paste in ok at the end of the previous movie, but the voice & music paste on top of the audio in the original movie & therefore can't be correctly positioned.
Is it possible to copy a number of such small movies to DVD & seamlessly join them?

Hi m
To merge movie parts in iDVD - Not possibly to my knowledg
I would merge them in iMovie.
In iM 5 or 6 You can have more than one project open at once.
I would use the timeline and select all clips + audio-parts then Copy
go to the collecting project. Move the playhead to end of clips allready here
then select Past.
Now open movie 3 - select all on timeline (3-track vision) and go to movie 1
(collecting movie) - move play head to end and Past
Repeat till all got copied.
Now remember that there is a 60 or 120 min limit to iDVD and this includes
material in menus.
Yours Bengt W

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• DVD Studio Pro (not from Apple any more) - or -
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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Hi
Do You have iMovie HD 6 ?
What kind of Camera did You use ?
If miniDV tape 4x3 Camera (interlaced TV-standard) then I would use iM6 and
when edited and done just close iM6 and start an iDVD project and IMPORT the
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This to obtain max quality.
iM08 and 09 discards every second line yielding in a quality equal to VHS.
Never figured out howto get around this - I got the impression that it could
be done but never succeded in doing it.
Karsten might know.
Tutorials
iDVD 5. http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/idvd_5stone.html
iLife6. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/
iMovie HD 6. http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHD_6_GettingStarted.pdf
iLife08 and Mac OS X.5. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials
iMovie08 and Mac OS X.5. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
iDVD08 and Mac OS X.5. http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd
Karsten Schluter . http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks
Podcasts Apple
- Find Out How - Document Apple
- Find Out How - Mac OS X Apple
- Find Out How - Movies Apple
- Find Out How - Music Apple
- Find Out How - Photos Apple
- Find Out How - Web
Books.
David Pogue's books.
• iMovie HD the Missing Manual
• iMovie 6 & iDVD The Missing Manual
• iMovie’08 & iDVD The Missing Manual
• iMovie’09 & iDVD The Missing Manual
• Final Cut Express, Video Editing for the Digital Enthusiast. Apple Pro Training Series. Diana Weynand
• Making iMovies. Scott Smith
• Final Cut Express User’s Manual
• Final Cut Pro User’s
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