None of the video has been imported, I created it in after effects so that shouldn’t be the problem.
I did find the open gl option, which is on by default. It has sped up the rendering a lot.. it only took about 45 minutes to render 7 seconds of animation.
I have two more questions however,
1.) I’m just a little curious about what open gl is/does?
2.) when I render in quick time the progress bar completes in fifths. The current frame rendering in the top left hand also completes 5 times. (once the counter reaches “Frame: 200/200” it will reset to “Frame: 1/200” and continue counting up to 200 until it has been completed 5 times.)
Thank you very much for your help once again!