Flip Video and mpeg4 avi

I'm interested in getting my daughter a Flip Video for an upcoming trip overseas, but I'm unsure whether she'll be able to use it with our Macs. She has a one year old Mac Book w/ an Intel chip. No problem, I think. Our iMac is older, using a Power PC chip. We currently run 10.4.11. Will she be able to work with the mpeg4 AVI files the Flip generates on iMovie, and will we be able to view them on our non-Intel machine? Thanks for your input!
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the included application with the flip work on os x to upload the videos to youtube to share them. the only thing that keeps you from viewing them on any computer is the codec. luckily the flip includes an installer to install just the codec so you can view them on any computer in your house without having to convert or upload them.
the flip video management application is a PPC app (so it would run natively on your imac and in rosetta on her macbook)
i don't use the app that much really though. you can get to the movie files directly on the flip because it mounts on your desktop as a flash drive. copy the files over to your desktop and you can export them using quicktime pro to a more "standard" format and then import them into imovie.
i recently purchased an elgato h.264 turbo and it does a perfect job of converting them from the .avi format (used on the flip itself) to .mp4 (a more standard format) that can be shared and edited.
overall, i've enjoyed my flip and glad i got it (for my birthday) and would recommend it to anyone who wants to be able to shoot videos with the idea of sharing them on the computer and/or internet (youtube)

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