I have installed, uninstalled and again re-installed PD5 eight times. I formatted my video works hard drive, re-imported clips from the camera's hard drive to make sure they were not corrupted. Re-edited from the beginning about 45 minutes of project (two hours worth of raw video). While trimming clips the program stops responding and closes. To make some progress I have to save the project after each action I take on each clip. If I get a little complacent, I lose the work. love the simplicity and intuitiveness of the program but I am very frustrated about the crashes and the fear of the crashes prevents creativity.

Technical support reviewed my clips, my diagnostic file found nothing wrong with my system. I cleaned the registry which makes the program run faster, but it still crashes. Before buyng my hard drive camera I used a miniDV camera which produced AVI files. I used Canopus Let's Edit for three years without a single crash. However I cannot use this program for MPEG2 editing without losing resoluiton. On top of it Canopus offers unlimited free phone technical support.

Technical support suggeted downloading the newest version, which I did. To my dismay the navigation cursor at the bottom of the timeline disappears behing the taskbar and cannot be used. Technical support asked me to reinstall. The problem remains (no cursor). On top of all this the newest version still crashes.

So again I reinstalled to CD version and try to manage some work between crashes. Not a nice way to have good time.

Anybody with a suggestion besides trashing PD5 ? Enrico