IMovie v's Other Software

Hi folks,
I'm not a Mac user, but posting this for my girlfriends young brother, who has learning difficulties, but is very talented when making movies with iMovie.
Basically I'm wanting some help from you guys out there. He has done some amazing video's on his Mac (Leopard - I believe) and has recently been doing some animation, which with his background, and lack of hope of getting any qualifications due to his learning difficulties, this could be something that his family would like to help him excel with.
He has been using iMovie as I said, but he wants to be able to change the speed of the show and I had a look last night at the software and couldn't see how to do this. His parents have asked me to have a look at some professional software, and wondered if you kind people can help me with some names, and even reccommendations.
He will be wanting to create movies from both photos, but would like him to do more stuff with the animation side of things too.
Can anyone help?
<edited by host>
Many thanks in advance for any help anyone can give me.
Ian

With regard to the iMovie question, you may get better responses in the iMovie forum -
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=141
Other video editing programs for the Mac include Final Cut Express ($200 US) and Final Cut Pro ($1300 US).
They both are much more complex than iMovie and come with a steep learning curve.
You can learn more about them from the Apple site - (listed below is the US apple site)
FCE - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB278Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&mco=MTgyOTU
FCP - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA886Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&mco=MTYyNjM
Good luck.
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