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These comments apply mostly to the new v. 4. (I started a while back with late v. 2, and went through many v. 3 releases.) Some of the new v. 4 features seem intriguing, and may prove to be quite good and important improvements over time. But, despite trying to keep up with the changelogs, I've always noted *substantial* reliability differences between the versions I've installed. Some of them have definitely worked a lot better for me than others.
It's early yet, but so far I'm getting plenty of failures with v. 4: during conversion, the frame progress indicator drops dead, because CX2D has locked up; have to kill it with Task Manager. Don't tell me it's overheating, or a hardware problem: Like Hell it Is ! Not if I can *immediately* turn around and convert / burn the **exact same selection of clips** using v. 3.6.4.158, which has been one of the more stable, reliable 3.x versions I've used, so I'm going to keep it around as an option. (I had similar experiences in the past, as between v. 2x and some of the 3.x versions. Given that inconsistency, problems have to come down to the software. Ignore my H/W profile info, which is out of date.) There are more variables to sort through now with v. 4, such as filter choice, 1-pass vs. 2-pass, and I can't say yet how they may factor in with these conversion failures.
With various versions, there has also been a certain incidence of burn failures, after a successful conversion, but in that case I have reason to suspect that the burner is going to need replacement in due course.
But I do hope they get the v. 4 bugs ironed out, as this is one of my favorite programs !
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