Way to Speed up or Load Icons in Background?

[edrizz]

I went one step further and used the Layout Setting to save the format that maximizes the number of rows on the storyboard into a Custom Setting. Now it is easy to switch the settings between the Default View which I work in once the images are loaded, and the Custom Setting which helps speed the load of the images on large projects.

[edrizz]

One thing I noticed--- If after starting Corel and loading a project with all of its images I then bring up a different project, if I go back and load the project that I had initially loaded, all of the image thumbnails are instantly loaded with no delay. I assume that the images are remaining cached. Possibly those images could be retained in some type of persistent temporary storage so that if I exited X5 and came back in later, the images would load rapidly. This would solve the slow thumbnail load issue.

[canuck]

It may well be the HD video clips since I have no problem at all with DV-avi clips

Another work around would be to break up the project into smaller projects and rendering each project to its own video file. You can then easily merge the files in your final project.
I would never even consider working with that many clips in one project.