IMovie or iMovie HD

I am new to mac computers. I started using imovie to edit home movies to put on DVD. I am not making full length features, just taking out garbage clips, adding transitions and chapters and titles and burning to DVD to watch in the future. I see now there also imovie 09 and FinalCut.
Can anyone tell me which is the best software to use for the purpose I want to use it?
Thanks
Jeff

There was a lot of pain from iMovie fans when Apple bought out iMovie '08, but, from the surface it looks like iMovie '09 addresses a lot of these early complaints. The one thing they haven't reneged on is sharing from iMovie '08 / '09 to iDVD.
Again, it would seem (at least from the online tutorials), if DVD is your intended end media, then iMovie HD 6 (depending on your camcorder model of course) is still the best choice as here you can add chapter markers integrally and share to iDVD from within the application without the need for extra steps (via Garageband, or, via Final Cut Express). It's a shame, because iMovie '09 looks to be a great step forward from Apple, but it seems as an organisation they have decided DVD's are a thing of the past.
Luke
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