Why Buy Quicktime Pro...???

I was just looking at QT Pro and am not sure if this program will be advantagous as I'm not exactly sure what it does...Here is a quote from the Apple site:

Convert your QuickTime movies to a variety of formats for viewing on your iPod or mobile phone or sharing with friends and family via email or the web.(1) Export to over a dozen different video and audio formats.

The site does not mention iMovie or making movies for DVD...Am I missing something...???

I'm a little confused with all the choices for video editing and viewing programs....Here are my needs...

Basically I want all my video files to be viewable and usable in iMovie...I think that Flip4Mac is the program for that especially for WMV files...

I have quite a few video files that have a .mpg extension which I believe to be mpg2 files....My machine displays them with QT icon but when I try and open them it says they are not movie files...

Given the video needs I have what would you all recommend....???

I'm currently not in the position to purchase FCP or even express at this time as I just spent a boatload of money on my new iMac including upgrades, Airport Extreme, new printer and other goodies...

Thanks for the input....

Just realized this might be in the wrong forum...If a moderator could move it I'd appreciate it....thanks....

*Moved thread to proper forum*

Thanks MHC...

I don't have QT Pro but have no problems viewing any type of video.

I'd download VLC (Leopard/Tiger version), which is gonna just about open everything you throw at it.

As you mentioned, Flip4Mac is handy, as is Perian (for Tiger).

Best bet is to have as many tools as possible. QuickTime standard is plenty enough for me and my needs.

VLC will play just about any file and will do pretty much anything QTP will do...and in alot of cases, will do it better.

It also will convert nearly any type of video into any other type of format.

Best of all, its free.