My PD8 frequently freezes during the popup video edit, and the only way to fix it is to disable the program in Task Manager and restart it. Of course, this means I have to save the script file frequently, as all edits performed since the last save will be lost.

This is an XPSP2 dual-core machine that is in perfect working order. No other program has this problem. PD8 will do this regardless of any other programs running in the background or not. Note that this is a lean, mean machine, with NOTHING in the startup group. There is ample RAM and disk storage. Auto backups (in PD) are disabled.

When the problem occurs, the CPU is running about 30-50%. This may be meaningless, but I have noticed that PD8 seems to use one of the cores much more than the other. Most other programs seem to use them about the same.

Another oddity. I just executed PD8, imported a video file, waited for about 3 minutes for the background processing to finish, executed a popup edit window, and the program froze. The CPU utilization of both PD8 and PDhanumansrvr showed 0. However, the cumulative CPU utilization was at 23% steady, and no other programs added up to anywhere near that. Closing the program in Task Manager brought the 23% down to near zero, so PD8 was definitely the cause. While the utilization was at 23%, only one core was in use.

I have tried with the background processing enabled or disabled, with or without the PDhanumansvr.exe. No difference.

I had this same problem with PD5 on another, older XP machine, again, a lean computer with nothing else acting up and no other program exhibiting this phenomenon.

Any ideas how I can fix this?