On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:29:42 GMT, "Evan Mann" wrote:

>Rendering is at the mercy of your CPU, and a single P3 450 isn't all that
>fast if you're doing a lot of effects and transitions.

Actually, the codec used is about as important - and render
speed is not 1:1 related to CPU speed (switching from a
450MHz CPU to an 800MHz CPU improved speed only
by a factor of 3:2 - switching from DVSoft codec to
DVRaptor improved speed almost 2:1, a more
noticeable improvement in speed...).