Movie workflow advice... help!

Hi,
I’m a Logic noobie and need to do this:
I need to mix 2 stereo audio tracks together and then add them to a DV movie (replacing the preexisting audio on the movie).
I figured I would bring both tracks into Logic, adjust relative volumes using track automation (and maybe add a little extra sweetening) and then bounce out the mix. Is that what you would do?
And then after I adjust relative volumes of both tracks and bounce it out (if that's the right thing to do), what would be the best way to bring the new audio mix into the original DV movie?
Can I do the syncing up within Logic? Can I use iMovie or must I use FinalCut Pro?
In Martin Sitter’s tutorial on using Logic with Video he has a low-resolution version of the video that you use inside of Logic. That makes sense, but once you are done working like this, what is the best way to add your audio tracks back into the full-resolution video?
TIA
Matt

MattiMattMatt,
Logic has a feature which lets you stripe your audio to a QT movie file. I tired it once, it didn't work (don't know why) but rather than trying to spend time figuring it out I went back to my old standby of laying up my music tracks within QTPro. Recently I've been getting into iMovie and there's a good chance I'll be using that instead in the near future.
If I'm working on only a small section of a film and I want to make a presentation QT of just that one scene, I'll bounce a mix (with head and tail pops). The bounce itself is started at the exact start of the head pop. Next, I open the movie in QTPro, edit it down to approximately the length I need and move the playback head to the exact frame where the head pop needs to align to. Then I open up the bounce in QTPro, select-all, copy. Finally, I click on the movie window and do and "add" function.
Bingo, it's done! And sync'd to a "T"! I might edit the head and tail of the movie a bit more. Then I do a "Save As..." self-contained movie. Ta da!

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