veeerrryyyy slow VS9

[beesquared]

Hi there

I have previously captured old videos onto the PC and burnt onto disk using VS7. I have got VS9 now and captured a 1 hour of vhs using the PAL DVD mpeg format options within VS9. I have then gone to the share create disk and is has been going for 3 hours and the progress is 2%. Pretty sure things moved much faster in VS7... I thought if I captured it in the dvd format it would not need to much in the way of converting .... appears to be the wrong assumption!

Maybe I have got some settings wrong, I have previously tried to convert avi movies to dvd but they have been aborted after an hour and the progress still sitting on 0%.

The PC I have is PIV 2.8 gHz, 512 mb RAM, 120 Gb SATA HD, 256 mb winfast 360 video card with vivo (nvidia 5700).

any advice will be appreciated.. otherwise I will be pretty pissed off about the waste of money and severe lack of support from Ulead.

I suppose one bonus is the VS( has not crashed the PC.. VS7 had a real bad habit of crashing...

[jchunter]

Multi-hour sessions are usually caused by improper procedure. Try the Recommended Procedure in the top sticky post first. Most likely, you did not set the burn properties to match your video properties or you tried to burn with video clips in the timeline. If you ever get the message "Converting Videos: This will take a long time," something is very wrong.
John