Love the new iMovie, but have no use for GarageBand, and I don't use iPhoto because it insists on saving photos where it wants to, rather than letting them be saved wherever we want like iTunes does.

I like the improvements to iDVD, but I'm having terrible problems with it. It is VERY slow on my 1GHz G4 PB wtih 1GB RAM. Even after waiting for the encoding to finish to free up the processor, there is still a significant pause between cliking on a screen object and being able to drag it. This is most annoying with slidder bars that I only want to nudge a bit. I click on them, start moving the mouse, nothing happens, keep moving, nothing happens, finally processor catches up and I've slid WAY past where I wanted. Same thing then happens when trying to find my original location. I find myself repeatedly clicking things not knowing whether the app has hung, or if I should just be patient while it catches up. stopping the motion menues helps a litte, then turn them all on immediately before burning. Finally, I've tried 5 times now to burn a project with 2 different brands of media (an old one I used many times with iDVD3, and a new one I just bought). 3 times I got a media error, and the other 2 times iDVD hung indefinitely (once overnight) after ejecting the unburned DVD. I even restarted the computer once in between tries 2 and 3. Didn't help. What gives?

Also, there is a problem with the Archive feature. My latest 54 minute movie created with iMovie with 22 chapters took up 13 GB as an iMovie folder. The .dvdproj file that iDVD saved was 3.96 GB and could not be used without the original iMovie folder present (movie project folder is on external drive and .dvdproj file will not open when external drive not mounted). When I made an iDVD archive, it took up over 26 GB!! Why is the archive 10GB more than the raw materials alone? Instead, I drug the iMovie project folder to the laptop hard drive where the .dvdproj file is. What is the purpose of an iDVD archive????