Tim, I am a beginning videographer and am a long-time computer user but not a power user. My experience has been very positive. So far I have only used OS 9.2 along with iMovie and iDVD. I have edited many videos or variations of my videos and written dozens of copies of my 3 DVDs that I made with little or few problems. The biggest problem I have had so far has been stuttering in the music during output which is easily corrected by using Diskwarrior. On the other hand, if I had deadlines, I would probably run into problems :-) Mike Cameron Quicksilver 733, 1 MB, OS 9.2, lots of disk space