Should have thought of this before I bought new mac!!

Have just taken delivery of a beautiful new mac but hadn't given any thought to the fact that all my music is on itunes on the old mac.
How do I get my library,purchases ,playlists etc transferred across ?
Thanks for any help

Just copy the entire iTunes folder to the Music folder for your user account on the new computer. You can do this in a number of ways; file sharing, via an external hard drive, or Firewire Target Disk Mode. It may be easiest, though, to just transfer your entire user setup to your new Mac via the Migration Assistant. That will bring over all your user settings, music, movies, photos, documents, etc. Migration Assistant runs automatically when you first set up a new Mac, but if you've already set up your Mac, you can run it manually.
Regards.

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Thanks for coming back to me. Your suggestions and answers are very valuable.
Although I have the Panasonic TM-700 most of the video work comes to me from a client's Sanyo Somethingorother camcorder. It's mainly instructional stuff about the equipment his company makes. They arrive on a memory stick, usually as MP4 files at 1280 x 740 or 640 x 480 (he gets confused with buttons so you never know what's coming). My job is to cut them up to make a meaningful 'story' and add titles, transitions and background music, the final movie is then delivered either via YouTube (which I embed into his website) or occasionally on looping DVDs for kiosks at trade shows. I also embed some of his movies into Flash presentations. It's not colour critical work, as long as the viewer can understand what's going on.
There are a few things wrong with using iMovie for this. The model of MBP that I have doesn't handle transparent PNGs properly (discussed elsewhere on these forums) so titling and watermarking using these files isn't possible (unless I take the job home and do it on an iMac, which is a pain).
I import a lot of stills and iMovie seems to make a mess of these, washing out the colours and generally making them look terrible, again lots of others seem to complain about this.
There are other things I find limiting. I'm hoping FCE will resolve these issues.
98% of my work is DTP and web design and the G5s are still very capable for this. However I will upgrade them later this year to MacPros which should be a better vehicle for video work as well. I can use the MBP but it tends to go out of the office for days at a time so not really practical.
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Greetings,
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