Laggy Menus in Premiere Elements 10?

I've been using Premiere Elements 10 for a while now, and the menus and response times are very, very slow. Maybe this is a graphics card issue? I run AMD A8 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card.
Help is very, very appreciated!

OS: Windows 7
AMD A8 3.4 GHz Quad Core with 8 Gigs of RAM
651 Gigs are free of 919 available in the C drive
I'm not using a camcorder, I am recording gameplay footage from a pc game, the format is .avi and is 1920x1080
I selected the settings that are correct for my clips.
It's not really the clips that are having problems, its the menus in general. The fact that the clips directly from the game that are in .avi format DO slow down the speed, but after I put them together then render them and open up my real project and place the pre-rendered clips that are .mpeg, the process speeds up much, much more. This may be one of the problems, but I don't think this can be the only one. For example, even without clips in the project the menus are still a little unresponsive and scrolling speed is sluggish.

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2. No access to photoshop.com plus (members only) disc menus
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Premiere element 9: How can I get rid of a disc menus without replacing it?

Thank you Bill, this is exactly what I needed.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:39 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Premiere element 9: How can I get rid of a disc menus without replacing it?
Welcome to the forum.
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Objective Miscellaneous
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Specific Replies
What disk menu? I am talking about “disk menus” as per page 243 of Premiere Elements Manual.
It was my impression that you said that "Disc Menus Do Not Show...", so I was asking which specific disc menu theme are you using? And, is this "do not show" applicable to all the disc menu themes that you have tried to work with?
I am using a Panasonic Blu-Ray player on the TV.
Are the disc menus of your Premiere Elements DVD-VIDEO or AVCHD on DVD not displaying solely with this Panasonic player? Or, is the same observed with computer playback of the DVD product? If the missing menus in the end product issue that brought you here involves solely the Panasonic player, then I would ask if you have checked the player for any option that would control the display of menus in the playback?
Not sure if I am using “interlaced video” but you would know from my input sources mentioned above.
You wrote "My source media is output from iPhoto and Fotomagico slide shows whose output is MP4 MOV or M4V and if played back in Quicktime are of very acceptable quality (H.264 1920X1080)". That does not tell me if 1080p or 1080i, but I suspect that it is 1080p. The MediaInfo properties readout will give a definite answer.
http://download.cnet.com/MediaInfo/3000-2169_4-10413046.html
Just be careful for unwanted carry alongs with the MediaInfo free program. But iPhoto and Fotomagico should be telling you before export whether you are exporting 1080i or 1080p. My main focus on the Premiere Elements 1080p DSLR aspects related to slideshow is the fact that that Premiere Elements DSLR project presets seem to give consistently a sharper photo image in the end product. So when applicable (photo and video wise) it is the preferred route for me and others.
“Quality area” and space requirements are not of concerns at this stage since present show length is not even 30 minutes – or should I be concerned for some other reason but space?
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Also, related trivia...DVD disc marked 4.7 GB/120 minutes is in reality 4.38 GB; DVD disc marked 8.5 GB/240 minutes is in reality 7.95 GB.
Are we any closer to getting at why your disc menus are disappearing after end product creation in Premiere Elements and at playback with your Panasonic player?
Please review and consider.
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ATR

Problems getting Disc Menus to work using Adobe Premiere Elements 10

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or
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I have the IMac 2013 i5.
When I'm working on Adobe Premiere ELements 9, the program is opening a message which is telling me that there's an error. Then the program closes. It ALWAYS happens when I'm trying to put a menu in my video. It is related to this action. I don't know what to do... I tried to uninstall the program but nothing changed unfortunatelly... I don't know if the problem's related to Adobe or to the IMac...
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About the 9.0.1 Update.
If you open a project to the workspace and go to Help Menu/Updates and click on Updates, do you see a 9.0.1 Update waiting for you to download and install it? You need to indicate in preference in that area if you want to be notified about updates in the menu bar. Otherwise, periodically you just check Help Menu/Updates to see what is there. You can also get the 9.0.1 Update online from Adobe and install it even with Premiere Elements 9 closed.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4930
About Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs
Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs is not a folder. It is a file.
As I wrote previously....
But, for the menu situation, I would still like know the results from deleting the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs settings file with the following route
User
User Name
Libraries
Application Support
Adobe
Premiere Elements
9.0
and in the 9.0 Folder is the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file that you delete.
Can you find the above path and the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file in your Mac computer?
Do not delete anything unless it has the exact name Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs.
With Premiere Elements Windows, the user has to be set up with Folder Option Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives active so that the path can be seen. I do not have Mac. So, I would ask "Does the Mac have a feature which you can enable so that you can see Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives?" If so, please enable it to determine if you can see the path to the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file.
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I wanted you to go to Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1 Timeline workspace, click on Title Menu/New Title/Default Still to open the Titler. In the Titler, I wanted to know if you saw the thumbnails for the Text Styles or were they all gone
Premiere Elements 9.0/9.0.1 Titler showing Text Styles
If you see them there and can successfully apply each to the text you have created in the Titler, that will give us information to evaluate the significance of your mention of an empty Styles Folder. If you see the Styles thumbnails, but cannot successfully apply them, then I will work with you on the Titler procedures.
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry for mistargeting your menus...my first thought was disc menus and not workspace menus.
The screenshot you present is normal under the File Menu before a new project or existing project is opened. Nothing happening after selecting
existing project needs to be investigated. What happens if you click on new project? Can you open a new project?
Let us rule in or out the usual factors and fixes
1. If you are not already, work from the 9.0.1 Update as described in a prior post in your thread.
2. Deletion of the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file or, if necessary, the whole 9.0 folder that the Adobe Premiere Elements Prefs file exists.
Local Disk C
Users
Owner
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Roaming
Adobe
Premiere Elements
9.0
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https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
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Hi,
I have upgraded from Premiere elements 10 to 11 and found that it is impossible to make a DVD without passing through the - long- procedure of choosing a disc menu.
In PE 10 it could be done but I haven't found a way to do this in PE 11 . Very often one want to just try a movie before it is finished and quickly burn a HD disc.
Does anybody have a good suggestion?

Hi again Steve.
I just found the answer on the forum.
A.T. Romano Oct 17th 2013
The trick is to go to the Edit Menu/Preferences/General
and
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I had eliminated all messages and consequently always got the menu option.
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Kind regards,
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The SmartSound/Sonicfire Pro 5 feature is gone in Premiere Elements 12 and has been replaced by Music Scores which is in concept like SmartSound but is not SmartSound.
I think that your happening was by chance.
Recently I had a strange No disc situation. Never had one as long as I have been working with Premiere Elements products 4 to 12 over more than 10 years.
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This one computer before and after this incident had SmartSound programs on it related to many earlier Premiere Elements versions that are on this same computer. So, SmartSound features or files did not appear to be implicated here in this No disc matter.
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