I have tried the Ulead software that comes with Siig's FirewireCard (it's a TI board). It obviuously was an entry level version of Ulead because it only offered minimum functionality.(posted 8889 days ago)I have been using Premiere for several years. I started with version 4.2 and am now running 5.1c. At first my system crashed constantly, and I stayed on the phone with Tech support relentlessly to determine the problem. The problem, Premiere does not like to mix resolutions when rendereing. Your entire project needs to have audio and video settings that are identical. If you try to render a transiton between a clip with audio captured in mono with one captured in stereo...Premiere will crash, same thing true if there are other mis- matched clips. I carefully plan my projects and capture at the sames settings for all of the clips. This resolved all problems. I have produced many videos from 5 - 30 minuted over the last 6 months with virtually no crashes.
I hope this helps all of you working with or consideriing Premiere. By the way someone said that Premiere had dropped the time line. That is not an accurate atatement. That is the only way I use Premiere.
Regards George