As for Premiere and Ulead, I much prefer Premiere. I have very few problems with the software and it is much faster to work in than Ulead it seems to me. I'm using 4.2 and getting along fine. As for crashes I've actually had more problems with rendering in Ulead's 5. I'm using a Canopus DVRex board on NT and the board is totally stable!! I do many long programs on it (over 30 minutes) and it's fast and stable. One word of caution, the DVRex board doesn't like Quicktime 3. Once I dumped version 3 I haven't had a crash in 4 months that amounted to anything at all!!(posted 9119 days ago)Brad