I made the mistake of upgrading from 22 to 24 in hopes some of the "features" in 22 that gave me problems would have been fixed in 24. Instead, it's worse. I have spent hours on a project and did saves along the way. All of the sudden, my timeline was completely empty. When I try to open the last saved project, it crashes. I tried rebooting my PC (Windows 10) and that didn't help. When I open my project, I can see the over 50 videos and pictures I had in my project are still showing in my project bin, but NONE of them show the green check mark indicating they are in the project. I know they were there because I just spent a couple of hours editing them and adding titles. Now I can't even open my latest saved version. And I had more than 1. I would occasionally save as Project 1 for example, make a lot changes then save as Project 2, allowing me to go back to an older one if I decided I didn't like the changes I had made. Now the program just crashes regardless of what project I am trying to open.
And I noticed the program keeps adding Disk.Movie.Disc.Movie.Disk.Movie and counting before the .axp. I don't even know why Studio puts that in the project. It doesn't make any difference to me. I do my edits and in the export I choose to make a DVD or a video. I don't see the point of the names but that's just me and a different subject from my main problem which is I can't even get the program to run anymore using ANY projects. I tried to open one I finished working on weeks ago where I created a DVD just fine. Now I can't even open that. The program crashes. Great.