I was just wondering what the opinions are on PD 8? I am currently running PD 7 Ultra and so far have been pleased with it overall. I am thinking about upgrading but I was wondering what the overall concensous of version 8 is? Is it buggy or is it relatively stable compared to version 7? Right now the three biggest problems I have with version 7 are:

1.) Multi-layered menu support...being able to have a slide show and a video clip as separate clips each with their own discrete chapters (sounds like this was added with version 8 is that correct?)

2.) My Canon HG10 splits it's AVCHD filles into 2 gig files. When I add them to PD 7, there is a small blip in the audio where the two segments join...I know this isn't a problem with the clips because I have found a work around...I use windows binary copy to append the clips together into one large file and the audio blibs are gone. Of course this is minor inconvienience but it would still be nice to simply join the files in PD and have them work.....has anyone else experience this problem and does anyone know if it is fixed in PD8?

3.) PD7 sometimes doesn't recognize the audio from the mpeg2 clips from my Hauppauge 1600 tuner. It's actually strange...in the clip preview, the audio plays fine...as soon as I add it to the timeline and play the clip from there the audio doesn't play. Is it been anyones experience that PD 8 is a little more robust in some of it's video/audio support?