Dear VEGAS, I have been a long time user, possibly over a decade. My first real use was to edit a wedding I recorded on VERY low quality equipment. It took me forever because, I thought, my low budget camera and computer were to slow. After the experience of constant reboots of my computer, and Vegas freezing, I walked away from trying to become a wedding video editor. I continued to use Vegas for personal use and small projects, but stayed away from editing for bigger projects like weddings because the thought of suffering through Vegas locking up or crashing was too overwhelming. The freezing and crashing problem persisted even with my small projects. I eventually upgraded my system and Vegas hoping to overcome the freezing and crashing problem. I have spent HOURS trying to troubleshoot the crashing and freezing issue. Nothing seems to work. Maybe my system is not robust enough. I don't know. I have given this software the benefit of the doubt even up to now because I have been able to create some great content. But the unpredictable crashing and instability of the program is just too much! I recently upgraded to VEGAS PRO 18. I LOVE the color grading capabilities. But the lagging preview while editing makes me want to walk away from pursuing my passion of content creation. I don't normally take valuable time to write posts like this, but I was compelled to do so after this last crash (literally 30 minutes ago). I was in the finishing process of editing a wedding. This has probably been 15 hours of work over the last 2 weeks, when I can find the time. I had just completed color grading my work for today (maybe 1 hour of work) and was preparing to render. Then the ominous message popped up "Vegas has stopped working." To answer the question "Did you have auto-save enabled?" No. Because auto-save is a major, time sucking, event and very intrusive on my system. "Maybe you need more processing power." You are probably right. The thing is I already upgraded my system about 6 months ago....to get more stability out of Vegas. This failure was the straw that broke the camel's back. I love creating content. But these program failures are expensive when it comes to my time (customers want their stuff) and sanity. I have decided learning another program on another system is more cost (and sanity) effective then continuing on with the Love/Hate relationship I have with Vegas.