Re: PP CS4 Crashes - significance of red line above time line

you're always helpful and generous with your time here vince, a good example to us all. and you're right it's probably never useful or good manners to state the obvious. if offended, my apologies to senor rick. i just lost it after such a detailed, lengthy and wild goose chase to the end solution of what that mysterious red line might mean. i was excited by the mouse shaking discovery, and up until the very end i was sure it was all adobe's fault with all that embarrassing bad software they write. (i didn't want to spoil the surprise ending solution by typing in "red line" in premier help.) anyway, the mystery kind of had a trick ending that threw me. again, my apologies.