IMovie performance on the 2.0GHz mini

Hi,
Has anyone had any experience with using iMovie on the new mac mini's? I was interested in how the mini did with performance in iMovie and exporting to iDVD.
thanks for any help,
j

I can only tell you how iMovie HD (version 6) behaves from using a new mini on a project - it seemed to run extremely well. There were very few signs of even momentary pauses when doing complex tasks such as scrubbing the playhead, and rendering effects, transitions etc seemed fast - about the same, or marginally quicker, than my G5 DP system. Importing and exporting worked well, though rendering the project in iDVD was still not lightning fast. The overall impression was that the platform was pretty slick to use, and other than marginally slower in disk saving and opening projects, at least as fast and smooth as the G5.
Sadly the system belongs to a user, so I don't expect to get access to it again!

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    |* 26 |      INDEX RANGE SCAN            | OLP_OL_FK_I          |     1 |       |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
    |  27 |    TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID   | SERIAL_MSTRS         |     1 |    37 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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