Toast 9 titanium avchd powerpc

Hello,
I'm hoping someone out there can give me a review/feedback regarding Toast 9 Titanium on a powerpc.
1. Can it really play my AVCHD (*.mts) files? I read the roxio forums and some folks were complaining that the quality was and that the video was choppy. Do you have the same experience -- specifically on a powerpc?
2. Can it really convert the AVCHD file into a format that can be imported into imovie hd 6? If so about how long would a 10 min movie take to convert?
thanks.

I cannot comment on using Toast 9 - but i have had no trouble importing AVCHD clips into iMovie 6 using Voltaic - which converts the MTS flies into Apple Intermediate Codec files. It does take a long time (eg - 45 minutes worth of clips took about 24 hours) - this is on a iMac G5.
After editing - i hope to export the video back to my old HD camera - in HDV format on mini DV tape (Except i have not been able to try this out yet - due to a problem with very jerky video playback in iMovie since upgrading to QT 7.5)

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