Short video before menu

I'm putting together a video with a client. He wants to have a short segment of the video play immediately as the DVD starts right before the menu, probably less than 20 seconds. I could only figure how to have video playing on the menu screen not before. I'm sure this is possible I just can't figure out how...
Any help?

You can make the intro as a trck and make it first play, but I usually prefer to build the intro onto the front of the main menu. This way I can have seamless audio and video with no pause when it resolves to the main menu. Set the loop point on the menu to delay the appearance of the buttons until the background resolves.
Even slicker is to make two versions of your menu, one with intro and one without. You can make custom audio for the one without so this can loop cleanly, and the intro can still have continuous audio through the first play through of the Intro_main menu.
Hope this makes sense...
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This may be a DVD Studio Pro task, but am wondering
if it's possible, in iDVD, to have a short (5 sec)
video clip play first thing, before the menu
appears.
Thanks in advance!
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