@Dean-Gotcher

You are going back a bit to infer the use of a 'Grannies Tranny' used mainly in the days of analog recording to ensure there were no phase anomalies when a stereo broadcast signal may have been played on a mono transistor radio or the compression volume may have produced unnecessary distortion from a lesser speaker.

I have to agree with @browj2 as I am not suffering crashes either. Few people that have the hardware are. Programs this complex become very hardware dependent and are made for newer hardware. There are limits to backwards compatibility in the digital domain that never were of a real concern in analog days. Computers are still very much in their infancy and I don't expect a slowdown in their progress or demands (or for supporting hardware such as cameras or phones) for the next few decades at least.

The idea that anything to do with any type of visual processing should be cheap when there is no slowdown in the technical advancement is in my opinion misguided.

While I sympathise with you to a degree, you have to realise that anyone buying the latest cameras are looking for programs that can handle them. That often entails a new computer and program to handle the files those cameras produce. The other reason for upgrading is when an operating system becomes obsolete and the base of the older program can no longer interface with it. While both scenarios can be very annoying it is unfortunately the way things work.

Ray.