Both good points, thanks.
It’s not really slowing me down or anything, and obviously the unrendered HDV in a DV timeline plays real time anyway. Just seemed an odd thing not to be able to use all 8 cores fully, especially when I have a hugely optimistic and naive idea about just how fast this machine should be. In my opinion, it should so fast and impressive that it edits the thing for me before I’ve even shot it.