Partial AVCHD Archive - only selected clips - is this possible?

A have a couple of video cameras with built-in flash memory, and iMovie (8.0.5) will import the clips fine. I want to archive some events to DVD -- but not the entire contents of the camera memory.
In the Import from Camera box, there is an Archive All button, but I only want to archive some of the clips. Is this possible?
I also have Toast 10.0.4, but again it seems to want to backup my entire camera memory onto a number of DVDs. I just want to send the raw AVCHD files from 1 event to someone, hopefully on a single disk. Thanks, Jeff

Ok here is something I just learned and I hope I can describe it correctly. First I have about a year and half of saved mts avchd files before switching over to the Mac completely now. What I could not understand fully was that if I connect my camera to the mac imovie can read the files and import the video fine and quickly but can not do anything with my already saved files. I could use a extra converter but it would take hours instead of minutes. So I played with the archive format and came up with this solution if you want to save just the avchd files as backups or to send to someone who can do the same.
ok now what I learned:
On my video camera I made 5 recordings( recorded blank wall) of atleast 4 minutes long (to cover my longest clip saved) and then used imovie to make an archive of it. In the archive folders stream folder I deleted the mts files there. After that I copy the earlier mts (5 at a time) files I recorded in the stream folder and renamed them using the automater for ease, the same numbering the camera used in my case 00000.mts 00001.mts etc... then in imovie import from the archive. It will come up with the correct thumbnails but the incorrect times of the clip, but imovie will import with the correct times as long as the clips importing are shorter then the dummy recorded clips (thats why I made them 4 minutes each) if you try to import clips longer then it will stop short and the clip will get trimmed. Also if you do it this way then you need the same number of clips in the archive as it was first saved or it may not detect correctly in imovie. I also noticed that one of my cameras I needed to move the bdmv folder to the main folder the archive is ( ../volume/camera archive/bdmv/...). You can make your own dummy archive with as many clips as you need, just make sure the same amount in in there when importing. So far it seems to work and alot better then converting and archiving everything in the imovie way for future recordings ( i like to rename and organize my .mts files for backup). That way if you just what certain files saved you can save the mts or mt2s files to dvd renaming files to make easier to locate the ones you want later and have the dummy archive for importing into imovie.
I hope I explained it good enough. If you have questions it may take a few days for me to reply since I use the library for internet access (no connection at home)
good luck

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