Best version of iMovie?

I have a new Mac, which I never had a Mac before and I just wanted to mess with some video i have. But I heard mac took a step back with the features. Like the 08 version, you cant slow down a part of the clip etc and thats what I wanted to do the most. So whats the best version of iMovie to use? Thanks

(Probably the 'best' iMovie version was iMovie 2.....most of us really loved that one)!
Did you get iLife 08 with your new computer? You need to examine your particular requirements for the types of movies you wish to create. Do you want to put them on the web? Make DVDs? Etc?
How easy it is to import into iMovie also depends on the format of the video you have. iMovie 6 uses .dv footage, so you may need to convert yours to that if you are recording in a different format.
You should give iMovie 8 a try to see how it works. There are good on-line tutorials on Apple's iMovie page. iM 8 can accept different video formats.
Here is a tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
If you want to make movies that you can export back to a camcorder, you have to use iMovie HD6. That is one of the reasons I am continuing to use that pretty much exclusively.
If you have iLife 08 installed on your computer, or if you purchase it, you can download a free version of iMovie HD6--6.0.4. You can get it here: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/imovieHD6.html
Apple also has tutorials for iMovie 6. http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/index.html

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klaus 1,
thanx for the reply. i'm on a 10.6.8 snow leopard.
yes, it did arrive via migration, but had been working well for over 2 years, and two years before that on a 10.5, where it had migrated from a mac book g4 where i used it regularly. through all that time and migration, not a single problem
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i have to say though, i'm a bit worried about reinstalling by disc and have no real guarantee that everything will return to normal.
not to mention my battery is dead and snow leopard gives you no way of getting to it. it has to be replaced at an official apple certified store.
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