For anyone who may be doing HD editting, I thought I'd post this bit o' trivia (?) Check the amount of system RAM being used by Vegas 5 by opening the Task Manager wiindow. While doing a slide show of TIF images captured directly from my digital still camera (3024x2016), my system and Vegas 5 virtually came to a standstill. Note that I like to keep the original image resolution so I can zoom in without image quality degredation. After looking at the amount of system RAM being used to load all the hi-rez images in the Media Pool, I noticed that my RAM usage was over 1.5 gig. My system only has 1 gig of RAM sticks installed. As soon as I exceed 1 gig, everything grinds to a halt because data has to be moved from RAM to the pagefile, which is VERY inefficient. With HD, I think the days where 512 gig of RAM was sufficient, is all but gone. Count on using 2 gig, or more, when processing hi-def images.