Photo montage software?

I need to put together a photo montage. iMovie 9 is installed and I've read some of what the limitations are. iMovie 11 continues to get hammered on the ap store. I want to be able to add titles, music, photos and video. I have a 2009 27" iMac, running snow leopard, with 16GB (recently upgraded) of RAM. Is therer a clear and obvious choice here?
With all the negative reviews of iMovie '11 I admit I'm a bit scared to upgrade. Is my best bet one of the iMovie products (with their limitations) or is their a 3rd party product I should be strongly considering, expecily I want control over images, video, sound and titles...
Thanks all I look foreward for your feedback.

Skor wrote:
iMovie 11 continues to get hammered on the ap store.
I think the results are skewed by folks that are having technical problems.
In my experience, iMovie 11 is a worthy upgrade.
I can't think of anything to recommend that's not going to cost you a lot more than the $14.99 for iMovie '11.
Is there something in particuluar that iMovie '09 is not doing for you that's making you contemplate the upgrade?
Matt

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BigMusicGeek posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> BigMusicGeek posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
>
> > Okay, so I've been able to change the background to
black (thanks
> > again, BTW), but I'm still unsure of how to add a
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> > of the gallery's main page. I keep copying and
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> >
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>
> I see no evidence on that page that you've pasted the
table containing
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Navigation
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>
> <IMPORTANT>
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>
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>
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novice, but what
> piece(s)
> of the paths for the menu bar need to be changed?
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need to point
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from:
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folder.
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href="/Home.html" or href="../Home.html"
href="phpBB3/index.php" could become href="/phpBB3/index.php"
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HTH
Mark A. Boyd
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