Need help understanding soundtracks and video

Hi,
I write music for myself (http://www.youtube.com/jgelhaar or http://www.myspace.com/bonjimmy) and I just saw the movie "The Holiday". In the movie Jack Blacks' character writes music for video. My question is what kind of software is handling this type of thing in the real world? Obviously I don't care so much about the PC side...
I have a contact that makes videos for YouTube and he's used my music on some of them (example is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zf3ET52BvA ) But in these cases, he just takes something that I've done and then puts it on his video as a sound track. I think it would be much better for me to write the music specifically for the video instead of the other way around. So I need to know what kind of software one would use for that purpose. With that, it would be nice to know what kind of a rig would need to be put together. Right now, I only have a couple of G4's at my disposal, but I am in the market for a new system once I can put the funds together. :/
Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Jimmy

I figured the G4 wouldn't be able to hack it and I plan on getting a new system for this.
So when you're composing in Logic, is it a recording application that also shows the video or does Logic have to sync with something else for the video?
Now that you've assured me that Logic 8 is the right place for me, I will do more reading about it. Thanks a lot for your comments.

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