Heres what Sony wont tell you
If they had provided the proper coding in the rendering process to actually use your graphics card to render then rendering would happen MUCH faster
for example resizing your video frame is done via the cpu, this is a horrid waste of system resources, all modern video cards will do this, this kind of thing is what directx is all about and its why modern HD games play so well
and if you are rendering to the very popular H.264 format it could render at a minimum of 2x real time if you have a graphics card less than a few years old.
That sony left out this functionality is sad in a software package at this price (but so did adobe, which is far worse.)
hopefully they will make this available in a FREE upgrade