I have used Studio since its earliest version and my experience has been that Pinnacle appear to specialise in producing buggy, unstable versions of Studio and if this is what you want you won't be disappointed!!! Version 12, after various patches, was reasonably stable. So far V14 has been prone to constant crashes and freezing. This is on a high spec PC optimised for video editing. Worse still when it does hang it is utterly impossible to stop it remove it from memory using task manager in Vista. The only remedy is to close down Winodws, re-boot and start again which is very frustrating time wasting experience
Not only that but some of the useful plug in effects for earlier versions and expensive add-ons I purchased for earlier versions of Studio refuse to import or be recognised in 14
There are only a few additional features that make it worthwhile upgrading from version 12:- three extra effects (particles etc), resizable preview window, improved title software (but Title extreme I recently purchased for 12 refuses to work in 14, also Boris Graffitti and excellent one that came with an earlier version also refuses to work) The useful zoom and motion add on in previous is absent and refsues to import.
I am finding it hard to justify why I wasted the money to upgrade for so few advantages and several disadvantages. Overall I would describe it as a DOWNGRADE
I recently purchased Core Video Studio X2 (annoyed as a new version X3 is now coming out) So far it seem far more stable than Pinnacle Studio, has extra video tracks. The jury still out but so far it looks far more usable than Pinnacle. If you have version 12 stay with it. Hopefully Pinnac;le will bring out needed patches to make it stable but fopr it not to import all previuous plug-ins in inexcusable.