Using Apple Lossless in iMovie - good/bad idea

Will the use of Apple Lossless sound files in iMovie 5 have any consequences? My iTunes folder is almost exclusively uncompressed files so that is what I have to work with. I notice that my movie plays more jerky when I start adding sound. Will this go away when the movie is rendered? Unfortunately itunes makes it terribly difficult to manage both uncompressed music files and lossy mp3 or AAC on the same computer.

... I would like to have 2 mirrored libraries, one in apple lossless and one as AAC ...aaah, message understood!! You're an high-ender, my dead-old ears don't catch the differences any more, 128kB/aac is enough for me... ;-))
this is the iM forum, but... : you could create two smart lists, one showing anything bitrate<128, the other one for HiFi/HiEnd usage; or, you use tools as iTunes Library Manager which claims to handle 2 (or more) librarys... but to keep everything sync... no idea....- <scratching head>
back to my dryland: the sound/audio in a dv file is way behind the quality you 're demanding... indeed, I would create a playlist for my specific itunes project and export that as aiff... besides: that is exactly what I do with my projects, I have a library of ~6000 tracks, I do a "preview"/prehear (??) in ITunes, anything what could fit, drops into a playlist, in iM I have immediate access to that pl, I don't scroll thru my whole library... after finishing that project, the pl gets into trash....

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