[Gus Mann]

thank you for the quick reply….

all my work is in SD format which i render down in either intermediate codec or 422 hi-rez….

my harddrive i have my info on is actually pretty full but i still have 100 gigs left out of 750….

I have been using leopard since it came out and it was a clean install…. i got rid of everything…. i did a clean install of my FCP suite and my other software….

i have been reading other forums and threads on this issue and one of the solutions was to make sure in my User Prefs / Render Control … i should keep the quality at Normal and to keep the “Always Use Best Quality When Rendering Movies” unchecked……

i did exactly that…but still i have the same slow rendering…. i’ve tried different codecs and still the same thing..

im pretty confused and frustrated..

thank you for any help you can give me..