How do I create a DVD with chapters using separate files?

[lnong]

Im a noob, so bear with my shallow knowledge of this stuff. Also havent used Adobe Premiere before and I havent authored a DVD yet...

I have a single 1-hour long video clip (with no sound) in MPEG2 format, and I have 4 audio files (WAVs) that add up to 1 hour. Using Adobe Premiere Pro, I want to create a DVD with 4 chapters (or whatever these segments are called) that correspond to the 4 different WAVs so that I can use the "Skip >>" and "<< Skip" buttons on my remote to go directly to any chapter I want.

My main question is do I have to chop the MPEG2 file into 4 separate files, add an audio track to each of these video files, and then create the DVD?
Or do I do the opposite and merge the 4 audio files into one big WAV file, add this big audio track to the single MPEG files, and then create the DVD?
You see, I'm not sure how Premiere works.

Also, im pretty sure I'm suppose to use Premiere to add track(s) to video file(s), but can it also lay out and author a DVD?

[daamon]

Hi lnong,

Well, the good news is you won't need Adobe Premiere...

Use something like GSpot (the beta version 2.52) o AVICodec to get info on your MPEG files. Then refer to the "What Is...DVD" link (top left of the page) to check the info against the specs to make sure they're DVD compliant.

If they're not, you'll need to get them compliant by re-encoding to compliant standards.

If they are, all well and good. Continue.

Now load your MPEGs into an authoring tool. A good one to start with is TMPGEnc DVD Author (TDA) as it's fairly simple, and the 30-day trial is fully functional.

Load the MPEGs in the order you want them to play, or into separate tracks (kinda like four movies on one disk). Then tell the authoring tool to use the appropriate WAVs as the sound source.

Set up any menus etc. that you want then author and burn.

Good luck.