The length of the overlap is the important point, you could have hour long clips but without overlapping them you won't get a transition. Andy 

Whenever I've had this it's because I didn't trim enough from the end of the first clip and the beginning of the second for there to be an overlap for the transition to sit on. Andy 

Is it the background rendering that uses mpeg-2 for simplicity and doesn't have any form of acceleration for it?

I'm going to guess you have variable frame rates and should convert the clips to fixed frame rate and replace them. You'll find many discussions on that topic that should help. Andy 

Darcon:It's odd that I can at least link the camcorder to the PC using  CaptureFlux while at the same time, the camcorder does not show as a drive and, therefore, cannot be ''seen'' by PS21. Caveat: I've never used the import feature to capture (in fact the PC with a FireWire port doesn't have Pinnacle installed, it's my really old ...

Oops, I meant to say 3db for doubling and was looking at the chart with 10db values. Time for some coffee I think!  Andy 

Decibels is a logarithmic scale. What you're describing is totally expected and Pinnacle would be broken doing anything else. Each rise of 3db is about a doubling of sound. If we took a starting kennel of 90db, you would end up going from 30db to 90db.  30 you would hardly hear. 60 is normal conversation. 90 is between a gas powered ...

hotspur:Is there an on line manual for this   The tutorilas are all aimed at the ultimate version. and all i want to know is how do i crop/cut clips to save a prtion of thewm?   Surley there is someone out there that has the answer   Thanks   As noted the any tutorial that covers this for Ultimate 20 will work ...

Sure it has, did selecting a clip not work?

If you export it, do you get the pops? Andy