thanks for the tip cw. i didn't know i could render in the background. i just learned too that i can use hardware acceleration for my 3d effect. just enabled it in setup edit.now i can make full use of my powerful geforce 4 ti video card. it sped things up here.
do you always edit you video as a whole. i mean the whole 1 hour of it in one editing. i tried it the other day and my system took so long i thought it hang. i break it up into segments ..the problem is i see blue blank scenes on the transition areas.