[Mr T]

To Styles B. : Update...if you're still interested...
Today I had to work on an 8 minutes movie. I've captured the movie via DV+Firewire in iMovie (as usual) and then exported the movie using the highest setting. From then I've opened the resulting 1,85 Gb file in QT. Since I had to work on some music without needing my G4, I had time to experiment different processing (they took amost an hour each).
#1: export the QT file using Cinepack X1. This resulted in a 85 Meg file; once imported in QT, the quality was really poor (pixels...).
#2: export the QT file using Sorenson X1. This resulted in a 58meg file which quality, once imported in PT, was much better (furthermore, I've exported a bigger window than with the Cinepack file). So, Sorenson gives better quality, takes less space , even with a bigger window size!
#3: no export at all. I've just imported the original 1,85Gb in PT. It works great with a good quality (slightly better than with the Sorenson file but not that far).

Since I had not been working on movies for a month or so, I thought I had to make sure my previous statements were reliable. Well they were, except for the Sorenson vs Cinepack thing (now I remember having always worked with Sorenson for the best), for the "mandatory" export from QT process (which doesn't seem to be that mandatory after all...probably depending on the size and the original quality of the movie) and (yes there's more...) for the SCSI vs IDE thing. Having recently re-initialized and reformated my SCSI drives, I've decided to give them a shot (again) for use with the video files and they worked great.
Just thought you might like to know.