[banninated68]

Hey all. I use iMovie to edit all sorts of things, but one problem I have is that I have a lot of little projects that I've done for friends, and I'd like to somehow put them all on one DVD.

Example: I made a DVD for a friend of some paintballing and offroading while paintballing, and the menus and whatnot were all really cool. Is there a way that I could make a DVD that basically contained all my other small projects, complete with menus?

Not sure if that was worded right, so I'll try again:

I work on a project in imovie. I export to idvd. I burn a dvd. I then start another project, repeat the process.

Now I have tons of projects, and tons of idvd projects, and I'd like to get them all on one disk. I'd like to be able to put in the DVD, and have a menu for all the projects, and when I clicked one, it would bring up the idvd menu stuff I did for that project... kinda like emulating lots of smaller DVDs, because they'd be contained on one big dvd.

Anyway to do this without re-importing everything into imovie?

Thanks!

[Spoffo]

It might be possible to do this with just Toast 6. Go into the VIDEO_TS folder of each DVD and find the files that are labeled something like VTS_01_2.VOB. The ones you're most intersted in will be big - several hundred MB up to 1 gb. Some of these will be the editied video you want, others will be the graphics and animation the iDVD put in there as part of its "production". You can view these individual files in VLC, which is a fee download if you don't have it.

When you assemble the copies of these .VOB files you have 90% of the content of your new DVD. I know that Toast allows you to drag & drop a bunch of video files and it will create a menu with thumbnail pix and titles you pick, but I don't know if you can do it with MPEG files like these.

If not, what you'll need to do is de-mux these .VOB files into Quicktime. For this, you need to install the MPEG 2 add-on for Quicktime from Apple ($20) and then run the VOB files through a shareware app called MPEG Streamclip. This will give you a series of QT files that you definitely can assemble into a single DVD with Toast. The only problem is that the de-muxing takes a fair amount of time, even with a fast Mac, and the re-compiling back to MPEG in Toast will take even longer.

[sigamy]

This is very possible in iDVD. I'm not an expert but I belive the key is to not use the "send to iDVD" option.

You should create your project(s) in iMovie. Edit them, add titles/effects and then save the project. Now do File > share > QuickTime > full quality DV. This will create your movie as a full quality .MOV file.

Do this for each of your small iMovies.

Open iDVD and create a new project. Drag and drop your first .mov file onto the menu. You now have a DVD with one movie. Drag and drop the next .Mov file, you now have 2 movies. Continue on and on..

The harder part (for me at least) is getting the menus to do what I want. You may end up with a Scene selection menu for your first movie and menus for the other movies. You may have to play with that.