Hello All,
I have just purchased Pinnacle Studio Ulitmate 11 and having such slow processing times....since I am a beginner at this...all I have been doing is taking a couple of VCD files and combining them into one AVI or MPeg 1/2 file. it is taking in upwards of 10hours. We have beyond the minimum for computer hardware but slow would be a good thing at this point. So....here is my hardware specs

Quad Core 2.6 gHz 12m L2 Cache
DDr2 800 2 gig memory
SLI vido card (2-8500 Nividias)
and we are running XP pro

now....here is this little tidbit that I am thinking maybe be causing my problem....we are running utorrent in the background...could this be my problem? I know it slows everything else down on the computer.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks
Jennifer R.

don't know why i have to do this....

It's impossible to work slowly with what you have. Very important component is motherboard, if the motherboard doesn't have high bus you will not have the desired speed. What I suspect at your environment is the software PC. To be more precisely, I think that you have to reinstall your windows, to be clean with not too many dll, I mean not too many programs installed.

Don't forget also to check you PC against viruses and about your utorrent it must be no problem as soon as the traffic (upload/download) is under 300KBps.

Pinnacle 11 is a real improve from the last release v10, which was a disaster.

good luck!