After Effects CS4 crash - Drag Layers etc. - Edius is the problem

because it nearly drove me mad,
to find a nasty little bug i'll post it here -
if you ever have the problem of after effects crashing, when you try to pick,drag a layer or an effect and you can't resolve it,
check if you got Canopus Edius installed...
this is the program, that causes the problem...just deinstall it, and you're fine...
i firstly got over the whole tips section "what to do if afx crashes", reinstalled the suite, nearly reinstalled the whole system :(
and it was just luck, that i stepped over this problem...
so i hope this can save you time...
perhaps the support team should get it into known issues?
the nasty thing about it, the developers right over at Canopus seem to know about this bug for over a year now, but they won't do anything ... shame on them

Thanks for posting this, Robin.
Please, whenever you find a bug, send a description to [email protected] or fill out the
bug-report/feature-request form. That is much more reliable than counting on someone from Adobe seeing a post on a user-to-user forum.

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