[Melissa8]

Thanks for your replies.

>what CPU(s) are you on (Speed, buffer, etc.)

I’m not sure what that means…

My computer is not top-of-the-line but, hey, we’re just talking about ripple edits and extract operations!

I have a 2 GHz Pentium 4, with 1 GB of memory.

The graphics card is a 64 MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 AGP. I upgraded the driver when I switched to Pro from Premiere 6 a few months ago.

[Melissa8]

I upgraded to Pro 2. Initially, the problem disappeared, but it came back with a vengence as the project grew.

It’s NOT a playback issue. It’s a simple “Extract” from the timeline operation: set IN point, set OUT point, Extract!

It’s now taking (in Pro 2) a mind-numbing 22 seconds to do that miserable little operation!! Even the “un-do” for that operation takes a comparable amount of time. During that time, the CPU is going crazy spinning around at 100%