Hi d8newbie,

I would say your 700 MHz cpu is your biggest bottleneck for speed of rendering. Adding more RAM might help some but it won't overcome the speed limitation of your cpu and more hard drive space would help the least although it would allow you to store more projects a one time.

I use studio 8.8 also and I think my system (P4, 1.5 GHz cpu) takes about 20 minutes to render a one hour video before writing it to tape. I have Studio set to render in the background during editing (on your setup/edit menu) which should help.

cwhiddon ---