":Jerry:" wrote in message
reenews.net...

"Mortimer" wrote in message
...
snip

At present all three (source, render and VIDEO_TS) are on the external
disk,

That is most certain to slow things up, having source and destination on
the same drive, even more so if they are in the same directory, can you
not use the system drive as either source of destination - failing that,
partition the external drive?

So source and VIDEO_TS on system and render on external, so source to render
and render to VIDEO_TS are both copying from one drive to the other rather
from two parts of the same drive?

I think I went out of the frying pan into the fi originally I had
everything on the system drive and then I changed to have everything on the
external drive, so I was no better off! With a bit of thought I'd have
ensured that I was always copying from one drive to the other.

I'll try this tomorrow.