"G Hardy" wrote in message
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"Mortimer" wrote in message
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I've set the rendering and VIDEO_TS folders to be on an external USB2
disk (and it *is* running at USB2 speed!) so as to lighten the load on
the system disk.

There's your problem. Assuming you can put them on different drives, put
the VIDEO_TS folder on the system disk.

So out the render directory on one drive (external) and the VIDEO_TS
directory on another disk (eg C?

Will that actually help? The time is in populating the rendering folder
rather than the final copying from render to VIDEO_TS folder. Which drive
should the raw MPG files be on - the ones that make up the project? Should
they be on the render drive or the VIDEO_TS drive?

At present all three (source, render and VIDEO_TS) are on the external disk,
mainly to keep the system disk free for any pagefile access. Maybe there's a
better way of doing it. Sadly Studio 10 SmartStart doesn't have any PDFs of
manuals, and the help file doesn't seem to offer any advice on optimum setup
of disks.