My advice is to stick with version 3

Question

My advice is to stick with version 3.
I find that v4 is strictly for complete beginners.
If youve done any editing before youll find it ridiculous .
Most of the things you want to do and did before are hidden and hard to find unless you look them up in help.
I put it on and soon abandoned it and went back to v3 ( or even v2) which are far better editing programs.
Do what you like but if your looking for an improvement your wasting your money with v.4
Bob Dutru ( retired abc news cameraman)

Answer 1

Exactly !!
Me use this application primarily for dumping footages from my camcorder to the PC and then trimming off the bad portions, Adding Begin title and Close title and Backing it up back to different set of tape [[[ And also shifting on DVD.
But, yes when I start adding effects / transitions, the properties window comes handy. But even then -invoking the properties panel is not as painful as most of the guys describe here. Definately not important enough to ask others to NOT to upgrade.
I would site an example of the Dual monitor stuff of version 2 (I guess ??), the 'seperate''always visible'preview monitor and edit Monitor was very helpful and I used to complain about it all the time, but with every new version there is always some change.
Definaltely - the guys out at adob must be doing enough research before putting up the final product to the user.