i do agree that esprit is far more capable then easel so if money isnt an issue (and 70us$ more isnt much) go for v5esprit. but if you realy dont have 70us$ extra, easel is a realy nice application, sorry to hear that you had problems hein, im playing around with easel myself and sure its limited compared to esprit and infinite but its a superlow price app and it does what it should do, and it does it realy good. its atleast for me working solidly (some super minor issues which im sure will be fixed in the next update), no instabilitiy issues and no render problems.