I need to upgrade my Mac, is there anyway I can swap my 4 month old Macbook Pro for a iMac or something with a bit more kick? (for video editing)

I would ideally like to upgrade to a new model iMac, as they and my Macbook Pro 15inch, only 4 months old go for about the same price.
Is there any way I can do this through Apple or would I have to go about it in another way. I would like to minimise spending and ideally would not like to buy a completely new computer. What I'm asking, really, is if I can trade the two?

No you cannot trade in. Sell you MBP on eBay for the best value. The best 'bang for your buck' currently offered directly from Apple is their certified refurbished machines:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1184595 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:                    C5B363C1-4906-4416-995D-9E6844AB2293
Mon Jul 23 02:10:19 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002ff238): "vnode_rele_ext: vp 0xffffff800cb4d8b8 usecount -ve : -1. v_tag = 0, v_type = 1, v_flag = 84800."@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.26.8/bsd/vfs/vfs_subr.c:1711
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff807f7cb6d0 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff807f7cb750 : 0xffffff80002ff238
0xffffff807f7cb790 : 0xffffff7f80eab317
0xffffff807f7cb7b0 : 0xffffff7f80eac071
0xffffff807f7cba00 : 0xffffff7f80eacf22
0xffffff807f7cba40 : 0xffffff800052ca84
0xffffff807f7cbaa0 : 0xffffff80002fb9dc
0xffffff807f7cbaf0 : 0xffffff8000313e06
0xffffff807f7cbb90 : 0xffffff800030c990
0xffffff807f7cbc50 : 0xffffff800030cf0e
0xffffff807f7cbf50 : 0xffffff80005cd61b
0xffffff807f7cbfb0 : 0xffffff80002daa13
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         com.sophos.kext.sav(8.0.4)[898EB02E-4A1D-1F59-6625-C0466041D6C4]@0xffffff7f80ea a000->0xffffff7f80eaefff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mds
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11E53
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr 9 19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
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