Tim, I’ve pretty much given up on the Xplode wish. Canopus and Premiere never did get along very well. Some systems would seem to work ok but many did not. Mine worked quite well but still crashed many many times per project. I just got so I accepted it and went on.
What really surprises me is that six years ago Canopus was so far ahead of other companys in some areas such as Xplode transitions and Picture in Picture (real time). Today I still can’t find anything to compare it with. I have your training DVD on CS3, actually I have two of them, one came with the CS3 package. You help out quite a bit but its still very basic. That’s probably why its called “Basic Training”. I would like to see what Premiere’s PIP can do. So far I don’t see where I can blend or feather the edges.