Mihia,

Thanks for the welcome & info. Two of my friends have been using pinnacle. It's been a tale of two users...

My friend who has been using pinnacle 9 for about 6-9 months is very happy and having few problems. My other friend just bought a similar PC set-up to mine and ran out to get pinnacle 10--lots of problems.

Did you demo Vegas Movie Studio? I will look into it and your other suggestions. Thanks!