iMovie easy

While I use a pc at work and at home I recently got gifted a second hand G4 mac. I've had it a few months and only played with it a bit but yesterday I fired up iMovie and started to put together a movie of my kids birthday.

iMovie is easy. Easy and very good. I had started it before and had a quick play but I hadn't really done much and I didn't appreciate just how easy it is to use. It was so simple to put together a short movie of birthday highlights with some titles and cross fades and a music track I almost couldn't believe it. As I have not quiet finished it I still feel there must be a catch - will it be difficult to output it to DVD in a format I can use?

My experience with mac's and mac software is very limited. I do have iTunes on my pc and that too is simple to use. I find that both iTunes and iMovie seem to make the basics very easy to do and don't get bogged down with advanced features. It may not be a good comparison but I feel that if I used iMovie regularly for a few months I'd have a good idea of every feature it offers. I use Microsoft Word daily and have done for years and still don't know all the features it offers.

I don't know if all mac software is this straightforward - I've had a quick look at Final Cut Pro and it seems to be very feature rich and much less straight forward to use. As I'll be using it for a Uni course I'm doing I should be able to make a good comparison with the simplicity of iMovie.