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Although I can sympathise with your frustration it's difficult to move
forward without a bit more information

If you run openshot in a terminal window does it print any error
message?

Also - you gave some details of your system but not what CPU or video
card you have.

Editing or even merely playing AVCHD is quite CPU intensive, my main
desktop is a Quad 1.8Ghz Phenom with an ATI R1250 but I haven't yet
found a Linux program which could smoothly _play_ AVCHD files, never
mind edit them (so I now use an intel i920 clocked at 3.6GHz with 12G of
DDR3 SDRAM for video editing).

Finally can you play the files using melt/ffplay/mplayer?

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Crashes frequently for no apparent reason
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/531043
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Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New

Bug description:
Pretty much all the time, just clicking on anything at any time, will cause the program to crash. The worst time was when I right clicked to get a menu on an item in the list of media files, and then the program crashed, causing a total of freeze of everything in the GUI. I tried a console to use sudo killall openshot, but it did not work. I had to reset the X server completely before I could do anything at all. 
I am using Ubuntu 9.04, 64-bit, with 4 GB RAM, > 1 TB HDD, trying to create short videos using AVCHD video files mostly from my Panasonic Lumix TZ7 digital camera.
OpenShot 1.0.0.1, installed from DEB.
I save often and regularly so that I do not lose any work, but it is a bit much to have to click Save every single time before doing anything in case it crashes.