Use movie audio as menu audio

Hello,
I'm using iLife 09 and I created a movie in iMovie which I imported to iDVD. I'm just using a simple one step menu for the top level of iDVD. I filled the Dropzone with some clips from my movie. What I can't figure out is how in the world to get the audio for the menu to be the audio from what's on the screen. In other words, part of my iMovie is playing in the menu. I just want that audio to be playing, in sync, while the menu is up. Any ideas? Thanks

You could open the menu preferences where the audio bin for the menu is shown and drag the movie file from the Media Browser into it. But that would add the entire playing time of the movie to the iDVD's project playing time and might put you over the time limit.
You can open the movie in QT Player 7 and use the File ➙ Export menu selecting Audio to Aiff option. Then open the new file again in QT Player and crop out the audio you don't want and save. Add that aiff file to the menu audio bin.
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