Creating Slideshow/Instrutiional Movie With Narration

Thanks for any input. I've been reading for two days trying to find the best way to do what seems like an easy task. iMovie and Photo To Movie's both have dramatically less quality than the slideshow QT export using iPhoto. However, changing the photo timing is very limited in iPhoto. Apple tells you so little about Quicktime Pro it's difficult to understand what it will and will not do.
In QT Pro can I:
1) move/slide each still photo's display timing along a time line (much like editing clips in iMovie) and change the duration of each photo (stretch, etc.)
2) edit and move pieces of the audio (i understand this may be a bit of a chore in QT Pro). I can use Pro Tools or Audacity if necessary then import the audio.
thanks.
Mac OS X (10.4.8) iMac 2.0

You can only either "Add" or "Add to Selection & Scale" when inserting images formats into an audio timeline. Add only inserts a single "frame" (your image) so you would want to add to selection. The "scale" part allows that single image to "fit" the selection. Still only one "frame" but now it occupies the "time" of your audio track selection.
You set in and out points (right left arrow keys move one frame at a time) to make a "selection".
If you don't like the results QuickTime Pro has a multiple "undo" command (Command-Z).
Just like video the audio track can be cut, pasted, deleted and copied in QuickTime Pro. You can "copy" a selection and paste it into a new Player window to make another file or add that same selection to the existing file.
QuickTime .mov files can have up to 99 tracks and you can "flatten" them all into one new file via export so you could have millions of image only files in one .mov container.

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_Currently I’m working on a project where 9 stills are dropped onto the screen like cards thrown across the table, each still has an independent pan._
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_Photo To Movie type apps will do anything like that._
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Bridge and Photoshop is a common file-based management system. (Not sure why you'd have used ACDSEE as well as Bridge.) In any event, it's on the way out. You won't be using it in 5 years time.
Up to this the lack of processing power on your computer left no choice but to organise this way. But file based organisation is as sensible as organising a Shoe Warehouse based on the colour of the boxes. It's also ultimately data-destructive.
Modern systems are Database driven. Files are managed, Images imported, virtual versions, lossless processing and unlimited editing are the way forward.
For a Photographer Photoshop is overkill. It's an enormously powerful app, a staple of the Graphic Designers' trade. A Photographer uses maybe 15% to 20% of its capability.
Apps like iPhoto, Lightroom, Aperture are the way forward - for photographers. There's the 20% of Photoshop that shooters actually use, coupled with management and lossless processing. Pop over to the Aperture or Lightroom forums (on the Adobe site) and one comment shows up over and over again... "Since I started using Aperture/ Lightroom I hardly ever use Photoshop any more..." and if there is a job that these apps can do, then the (much) cheaper Elements will do it.
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Similarly, that Jpeg is not your photo, it's a container designed to hold that kind of data. iPhoto is all about the data and not about the container. So, regardless of where you choose to store the file, iPhoto will manage the photo, edit the photo, add metadata to the Photo but never touch the file. If you choose to export - unless you specifically choose to export the original - iPhoto will export the Photo into a new container - a new file containing the photo.
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These apps replace the Finder (File Browser) for managing your Photos. They become the Go-To app for anything to do with your photos. They replace Bridge too as they become a front-end for Photoshop.
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