Hi, drosenbe08132!
Tomasc is quite right. I forgot that bit. The higher you go in grades within a given version of Power Director, the more "goodies" you get in the bundle! Of course, you have to fork out a few more bucks to get those "goodies" PD14 Ultimate is the top-of-the-line version with everything in it(including the kitchen sink... ha-ha), all the transitions, particle effects and anything else you'll ever need or want. Ultra is the next version down the scale, I figure you might only have the delux version of PD14 as aginst Ultra or Ultimate in PD13, that's probably why you're not seeing as much in each, transitions or particle effects. In some of the transitions, though, in order to save a bit of space, Cyberlink had(probably back as far as PD9) combined some of the transitions, so that when you select one, say Threshold, for instance, to get eith Threshold 1 or 2, you go to "Modify", select between Threshold 1 or 2, then select(optional) between overlap or cross for the transition's behaviour.
Cheers!
Neil.