Premiere Elements 7 is astonishingly slow

I have a fairly new computer and a fairly simple task; yet things are just amazingly slow. More details:
My computer: HP HDX laptop, running Windows 7 (64-bit), bought in summer '09. For what it's worth, the system was Windows Vista when Premeire Elements was installed, but I upgrade to Windows 7 afterwards. Processor is an Intel Core2 Duo P7450 2.13 Ghz; 4 GB of memory. Video adapter is NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. 288 GB hard drive, with 210 GB free. Virtual memory paging file is 4063 MB. When I bought the machine last summer, I got the Adobe Premiere Elements 7/Photoshop Elements 7 bundle. (As an aside, does that give me any special upgrade deal for moving to version 8?)
My task: I recorded a short video (1 min 42 sec, I think) on a Samsung digital camcorder, which produced a .MP4 file which I uploaded to my computer. (This is the first time I've ever tried this, BTW.) I wanted to snip off the last 3 or so seconds, and end up with a file I could upload to YouTube.
The problem: Importing the file and placing the clip on the sceneline was easy. But from that point forward, every video-related action was painfully slow. Placing the time cursor at a point and hitting "play" wouldn't react for about 30 seconds -- it was obviously very difficult to see exactly where I was placing the Out point handle. And then when I hit Share -> Personal Computer -> MPEG output (NTSC DVD Standard), the rendering took about an hour. The expected time remaining counter was at about 20 minutes almost the entire time, oddly enough. (Which still seems kind of long for a 1 min 39 sec video with such simple editing.)
I did make sure that as much on the computer as possible was closed -- no other applications running, most of the taskbar notifiers exited, etc.
So, is there something I'm missing? Is my computer really too slow to handle this? Is there some setting I should check?
Thanks,
Joshua

As Neale says, the problem is not the program -- it's the type of video you're editing.
Neale's solution will work -- if you're editing AVCHD.
But if you're using video from a still camera or a pocket camera (like the Flip or Webbie) you're better off converting the video to DV-AVIs before you bring them into a Premiere Elements project, per the FAQs to the right of this forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0

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Recently I have upgrad the same PC to windows 8 pro(64 bit) AND bought Premiere Elements 11. (hoping for speed in every possible way!)
The slow timeline scrolling still happens in both PRE9 and in PRE11.
And guess what? in windows 8 pro you can't disable the "aero feature"!!!
You can only change some visual settings, and even if I disable all of them, nothing changes!
So are we really stuck with the laggy timeline scrolling in windows 8???
Premiere Elements 11 is so much faster in all other things (exept the timeline scrolling)
In the preview window for example. It can play really smooth, in real time WITHOUT render preview
some pretty difficult compositions I make! multiple layers, with greenbox and many other filter effects!
Which in Premiere Elements 9 (in the same PC) the preview play was very laggy!
(don't forget that with aero disabled in PE9(win7), same PC, same complicated compositions, timeline scrolling superfast!)
I think they made some pretty good graphic card use in the preview play in PRE11!
I present and edit a youtube show with Premiere Elements with demanding compositing and everyone thinks I use Premiere Pro CS
version or After Effects CS. But I don't, I want to be legal and I can't aford the prices of these applications
so I buy and use the Elements series which are very powerful as well, if you know what to do and HOW to do it!
See for youselves my show I posted today(in Greek, I am from Greece), which I edited in PRE11.(pefrect greenbox, perfect!)
http://youtu.be/HdKAKI6P8tU?hd=1&t=1m28s (open in a new window)
or move time to 1:28 from the below youtube video window.
But unfortunattely the timeline scrolling made my editing unpleasant and slow!
My question is: Will I, (now that I have upgraded to windows 8 pro 64bit) have to edit ALL my next shows/videos
with the slow/laggy timeline scrolling??? please tell me something to hope for...

I have an ATI/AMD FirePro v4800 1GB GDDR5 with the latest drivers for this card (8.982.8.3)
Is my video card not compatible?
this slow redraw of the timeline happened way before
and everytime a new driver version came up I had installed it but that didn't change anything.
Only with aero disabled I would enjoy a fast timeline scrolling in windows 7. (now, not possible in windows 8 pro)
Bill how can you explain this? Same video card and everytime with the SAME NEW drivers, aero on=slow timeline, aero off=fast timeline!
Is there some kind of a fix that we can always wait from our graphics card companies to include to new drivers??? (for how long???)
or maybe is it all up to Adobe and its own programme?
Are we all supposed to have old video display drivers?
Can someone make some kind of a poll for people who have this problem to vote to see where this problem apears, in which configurations, in which graphics cards? (assuming they have latest drivers)
so we all finally know what/where is the problem.
I love the premiere elements series and thats why I want this to be solved.

Problem slow motion Adobe Premiere Elements 7

Hello,
i`ve got a problem.
If i import the media (from DVD) into Premiere Element 7 i can see the film material BUT i can only see it in slow motion!
What should i do?
Best regards!

Schiller1wels
For the moment, I am going to take another approach to the issue that you presented. I could be wrong, but I would like to rule it in or out.
By any chance, did you decide that you wanted a better look at the Timeline frames and decided to expand the Timeline? But, you did not do that using the slider above the Timeline, but rather used the Time Stretch Tool or some other means to increase the duration/length of the video on the Timeline?
Decreasing the duration of the Timeline video will speed up the action, whereas increasing the duration of the Timeline video will give you slow motion and, if you do not click Maintain Audio Pitch in the Time Stretch dialog, distorted audio.
In your case, was the audio distorted as well as the video in slow motion?
ATRFor th

Premiere Elements 10 slow on Mac

Hi,
I installed Premiere Elements 10 on a brand new computer, but it runs extremely slow.
Even just playing one short 30 second clip (un-edited, the original file) causes lagging.
I made sure that the project is up to par with the camera settings and that there are no red lines above the timeline.
These are my computer specs:
MacBook Air
Processor 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 5000
Software OS X 10.9.3 (13D65)
As I said, it is brand new so I don't have almost anything on it but PE10 and the files I need to edit for work, so I don't think it should be a space issue.
I'm not much of a computer wiz, so I might be missing on some important info I need to share.
Please let me know if you need to know anything else.
I really appreciate the help and sorry for the inconvenience, but I couldn't find a solution anywhere else on-line.
Thank you!

S
Thanks for checking out the jpg and other video source Timeline performance. Enough of that. I think the results are pointing us specifically to the Panasonic footage.
Based on online description of your Panasonic recordings, I assumed that you were putting AVCHD.mp4 1080 50i on your Premiere Elements Timeline. In your last post your wrote...
I only have one other source, but it's the same type of file (.mov)
That would mean to me that you do not have .mp4 files but rather .mov files from the Panasonic. Could you double check that point - .mp4 or .mov? Under ordinary conditions one would expect AVCHD.mp4 and AVCHD.mov to be compatible with Premiere Elements with QuickTime installed on the same computer with Premiere Elements.
Right now we have
jpg, OK
another .mov source, OK
Let us try this for troubleshooting purposes only....take what your source video AVCHD.mov or AVCHD.mp4 and put it through the HandBrake program.
http://handbrake.fr/
This is going to be only a quick test. We can go back and fine tune settings later if necessary.
Open HandBrake to its Main Workspace
Source/Open File
Where it says Chapters, I typically set that to Seconds.
Destination - Browse to and set the hard drive save location for the HandBrake export
Output Settings = Container Mp4
Picture Tab (leave settings as is)
Video Tab
Video Codec = H.264 (x264)
Framerate = 25
and then
dot "Constant Framerate"
Hit the Start button at the top left of the workspace
and then
Wait for Queue Finished to be displayed in the progress bar at the bottom
left of the workspace.
The goal is to determine if you can work with this HandBrake export better than you can with the
original Panasonic file.
We will be watching for your results.
Thank you.
ATR

Premiere Elements 7 is astonishingly slow

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