Proshow Gold 2.5 Rendering Time?

[wieckj]

I've contacted the software manufacturer regarding example benchmarks for graphic rendering timeframes in conjunction with various Windows machine specs. However, they simply provided minimum specs with no additional information. Can anyone elaborate on what machine specs would provide optimum rendering times? Currently I have a Dell Optiplex 410 with dual 600Mhz CPUs, 512SDRAM, 128MB video memory and the rendering times take anywhere from 4 to 5 hours. The vendor did confirm that the respective software doesn't take advantage of hyperthreading so at least I know dual processors aren't beneficial....

Thanks in advance
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[hickory]

Wouldn't it kind of depend on the size of the project? I can do a 40-50 meg business card slide show in about 10 minutes. But to try and fill a CD I'm looking at the same times as you, but again it depends on the image size your starting out with and whether or not your resampling it to a smaller size or not. Also, are you using a lot of different transitions in your presentation or is it actually a video with effects? BTW, my Dell has a P4, 2.67MHZ with 1 gb of ram.