and their effort at making something that "should be a relatively easy task for something so repetitive" work so well.

As mentioned below, iDVD blows (at the moment) for slideshows, iMovie takes a lot of time, and mixing Ken Burns with effects is lengthy (not to mention the additional motion techniques you can use here and not iMovie), making this a very solid niche piece of software that most folks will find they actually have a use for.

I've supported them since version 2, but only made heavy use out of it after reading the online manual (wish it told me more "how-to's", but I got the jist) and wound up making five movies in three weeks of family & church functions, importing them into iMovie, and outputting to tape.

Great stuff - only one request LQ: File size. If you save for web, or even medium sizes, converting it to flash (with Sorenson squeeze, for example) makes the files still at least 5mb, often larger, and it's just too much for dial-up users to get to; anything we can do to keep the size of the exported file down some?

(please oh please, I've been playing with MM Flash MX and God help me I'll never figure it out - and yeah, I've completely RTFM :-)