I seem (fingers crossed) to have solved my problems with iMovie and Quicktime. Whilst waiting for the postman to get a grip of himself and deliver my copy of iMovie, I fell by the wayside; I downloaded a bittorrent of it, installed it, and promptly lost it somewhere on my hard drive. I tried to delete the thing without success. When my legal copy arrived I installed it and tried to use it, to no avail (or strictly speaking to not much avail). It seemed to have an extension conflict which I couldn't resolve; Gulp! I started by reinstalling Tiger, then Pacifist, then iMovie 4. Now it works perfectly, renders itself into QuickTime fairly smartly, (about two minutes for every minute of film), and it now plays in QT format almost as well as in iMovie. And Toast 7 Basic burns it to an excellent quality DVD. It took almost an hour to prepare itself, which I thought was excessive for a six minute film, but then took only ten minutes to actually write the disk; and it burnt the second one with astonishing speed. There's obviously something I don't understand about Toast, but I shall find out.
Eric Jervis 