Switch to different menus after different video clips?

I'd like to make an instructional DVD where the student makes a choice from a menu, which takes him to one of, say, three clips. Each of those, after showing the clip, would then lead to a new choice / menu. I can't see how to do this with iDVD. Is it possible? Alternatively, is it possible to make a submenu start with a video clip before presenting its choice buttons?
I've tried doing it from the map display, but there seems to be no way to add a menu (or anything else) after a video clip.
Is there a limit to the number of submenus I can put on a DVD in this way?
If this is not possible with iDVD, any suggestions about the simplest package I can get that will allow it?
Thanks for any help.

Interesting problem.
iDVD cannot directly do what you want and I can't think of any iDVD workarounds that allow new choices to be made after playing a video (except at the top menu). I suppose if your video was very short, it could play as a menu button, and then the student could choose an item from that submenu.
You could check into Roxio Toast 7. DVD Studio Pro ($$) allows you to target a specific menu once a video finishes playing, so it should work. It also allows hyperlinks (if you're using a computer) to connect to the web... which suggests a whole different kind of solution.
If the students will be using a computer, why not integrate your videos into a web page? The files could be local, or on the internet, but you could have the interactivity you are looking for. And you should have the basic software (iWeb) to do that.
John

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