Here is what I do:
Take a still picture to the timeline. Copy it 50 times.
Take a standard menu and let it create chapters. Do NO editing in any way.
Then I try to create a BD file on disk. No burning. S14 will render and then come to "Creating the final file" - or something like that (dont use english version),
After a while I get an error from Windows saying S14 has stopped - and all I can do is quit. No errormessages or logs. All Pinnacle support can say is "Reinstall application".