A lesson learned

I've been using Pinnacle Studio (part of Avid) as my video editing software for about three years now. I originally bought it becase I had to transfer material in a hurry from old VHS tapes (remember them???) and that was the simplest solution. I got used to the layout etc and, although I tried other solutions, none of them seemed to work so easily. However, I downloaded the latest version yesterday morning. The layout was different but nothing too complex. There were aspects which were actually easier to use. But when I started to edit video shot for a client the day, I discovered that certain features had changed dramatically. The facility for adding captions for instance wasn't anything like the previous versions. And of course I'd downloaded the software so the manual was online rather than in my hand (sometimes a book is so much simpler to use than a screen). So the lesson is -- don't use a new version of a program when you've a project to complete in a hurry. It's not good for the blood pressure!