Premiere Elements 12 Running Slow

Hi,
I recently purchased this program and installed it on my MacBook Pro 13.3" Late 2013, 2.4 GHz Dual Core i5 Processor, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM, Intel Iris 1024 MB Video Card, 256 GB Sold State Drive, and I have the external USB SuperDrive for DVD burning. The MAC is currently running OS X Mavericks 10.9.1. I installed Premiere Elements 12 on the DVD drive and used the original disc from the box. The program runs extremely slow and it is driving me crazy. Scrolling, video rendering (VERY SLOW), moving the cursor within the software, and dragging clips around is very lagged.
I had Premiere Elements 9 on a Windows XP Dual Core Pentium 4 Processor computer with 2GB RAM and it ran WAY faster. I have been trying different display settings on my current MacBook, and even when it's the only program open it is still slow. Is there anything that I can do to make it run faster?
I use Adobe Lightroom 5 on this computer, and it runs very quickly, so I am sure that other Adobe software works well on this machine. Thanks!
-Brian

Steve,
According to the minimum requirements of this software, my system is more than capable to handle it. I am using the MacBook Pro on it and not the old Windows XP Computer. I was simply making a comparison between the two. The specs for my MacBook Pro are as follows:
MacBook Pro 13.3" Late 2013
2.4 GHz Dual Core i5 (4th Generation Haswell) Processor, Turbo Boost to 2.9 GHz
8 GB DDR3 RAM
Intel Iris 1024 MB Video Card
256 GB Solid State Drive
USB SuperDrive
I noted above that I installed the software using the DVD that came with the software box. It is installed on my MacBook Pro.
On the top of the timeline I do not see yellow lines, but I do see thin yellow lines crossing through the video and audio files in 'Expert Mode'.
Here are my project settings:
I uploaded the video from an old camcorder into a HDV format a few years ago. It was a Sony 3 CMOS LCD video camcorder. The camera tapes have worn out and I am trying to make lots of DVDs of these videos to keep a hard copy of them.
Thank you for your help!
-Brian

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