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Problem: needed to superimpose Talking Head on top of Screen Capture for a work training video. iMovie doesn’t do multi-video-track compositing
$olution: Final Cut Express or Something
Better solution: Use Quicktime Pro!

Linkage: Thing 1 and Thing 2

2. Record Talking Head movie with iMovie and built in iSight. Forget to bring external iSight, so mac must be positioned oddly.
3. Simultaneously, use Open Source Screen Recorder on Windoze to record CRAM [!] compressed AVI
4. Very important: Totally forget to do something simple to synchronze the screen capture with the Live Action Footage, ala: Clapper, such as typing 1,2,3,4 in to notepad whilst calling out the numbers. Very important to forget to do this,
5. Edit the Talking Head a/v in imovie to where you’re happy with it. But don’t snip too much, you’ll regret it.
6. Extract Audio on the talking head AV. Put the V back into the drayer, and drop the AVI of the screen onto iMov.
7. Twiddle the AVI’s positioning until it overlaps the audio. Good.
8. Add cheesey starwars scroll-in or balloon-pop-letter titles, to give it that “Work Related” pánaché.
9. Save.
10. Attempt, but don’t succeed, in exporting at ‘full quality’
11. Realize that a Reference Movie that does exactly what you want is in the iMovie project. Open same in Finder, and in QT Pro
12. You do own QT Pro, don’t you?
13. Open the Talking Head clip separately. Select-all. Copy.
14. Saveas the reference movie.
15. Paste Into the Talking Head into the Reference movie.
16. Edit movie info. Make the Talking Head blendy and positioned. You can even use a custom mask.
17. When it looks good, throw the resultant – reference – .mov into Toast Titanium and say Burn DVD.
18. There is no step 17!