DVD Studio Pro 4 freezing when I click on video tab in palette

I have a recent problem with DVD Studio Pro 4. When I open the application it appears to be okay, but when I click on the video tab in the palette the application freezes. All other tabs open okay: Templates, Styles, Shapes, Audio, Stills, but when I click on video the whole thing freezes.
This has only recently happened and I have used this software plenty in the past.
I would appreciate if anyone could help or let me know if you need more details.
Cheers

I renamed the current pref file, com.apple.dvdstudiopro.plist, and restarted the application. This seems to have corrected the problem. A new version of the file was created when the application was restarted. Hopefully this will be a long lasting fix.
Thanks very much for your help.

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