thanks, for the suggestion. I find it good and bad that premiere is this finicky, seriously, who cares, why not just let there be open source updating for these plug ins, or does there have to be a video editor devoted specifically to avi file recombinations, mpg, divx, xvid, mkv etc, and if anyone can suggest an editor that natively takes such files, let me know. Of course the finished projects have to be outported to acceptable premiere formats, as well, of course. thanks in advance again.