Premiere Pro CS 4 performance

I have PP CS 4 Master Collection on a computer. It isn't used very often, but my boss has asked me to think about creating more video for our presentations. The problem is, it is taking me forever to make the simplest changes to a video and then create the final video.
For example: I have a sequence of five video clips. The first is an HD MOV file (1920x1080, 30fps), about 13 seconds long. The remaining four files are exported Google Earth videos in WMV format, 1080p 59fps. All clips put together are about 2 minutes 28 seconds. I load them all into the timeline, and then try to make a few changes, such as adding crossfades between scenes, and adjusting the playback speed of a few different pieces of one of the videos. PP will not play back in the preview window smoothly at all, and is worthless for lookinig at the edits. I have to pre-render to be able to watch them, and that takes about 45 minutes. Once I make the final video render, using 720p HD WMV, it takes close to two hours!
This is unacceptable performance. The computer is a Dell 5600 workstation with dual Xeon quad core CPUs and dual Quadro 600 video cards and 32 gig of ram. Windows 7 Professional x64. This kind of horsepower should fly through something so simple. Is there some settings in Premiere Pro that I don't know about that affect performance? I realize the CS 4 doesn't not support GPU hardware acceleration, but I need some help here. I took the same batch of videos, loaded them into Cyberlink Power Director 12 trial version on my laptop (quad core i5 with 6 gig of ram) and it could render the same video in 16 minutes. There's no way PD 12 should blow the doors of Premiere Pro like that. My office can't spring for CS 6, as the federal budget is what it is.  Help!
Dan Rollins
Federal Aviation Administration

Well, we have owned this software package for many years. I have just "inherited" it. This user account doesn't even have my correct name attached .
Obviously, with the hardware I have I'd like something that can make use of it. I know CS4 is only 32 bit (it does have 64 bit Photoshop thought), but it's the lack of support for GPU acceleration that I believe is hurting me the most. Elements may be worthwhile, but I wonder if it will do anything that Power Director can't. Since I am forced to go through government channels for software purchases, I have no idea what these different software packages would cost, and we don't have the budget right now for anything major.
Still, even being 32 bit, it does seem to use all CPU cores, so I'm still quite puzzled but its lack of performance. Is the issue that I'm working with WMV files, and if so is there a different format that my version will work better with? I can't spend an hour or more just to see what my edit looks like. It is taking days to make simple changes, and I am under too much pressure for results to wait that long.
Thanks!
Dan

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    I've recently downloaded and installed the trial version of Premiere Pro CS5, to see, how it suits to my needs. And I'm very dissapointed. I've started premiere, selected DV-widescreen preset, inserted two static pictures on timeline, and did an alpha blend between them. Then put movie to export. Not only it took way too long time to render, but it only used single core, and cpu usage is only 15% ! Just for curiosity, I've installed premiere 6.5 on same system, and it did that task about 10 times faster!
    What is this, limitation of trial version, or just Premiere Pro CS5 can't be used with this modern CPU ?
    Thanks in advance,
    Alex

    First off 4GB of ram is really to low for CS5. CS5 is 64 bit for a reason and requires far more ram. 2nd, what video card are you using?
    As for the opteron system the other poster listed, you could get the lower end Intel platform and easily out perform that opteron system. A Geforce 450GTS video card would out perform that Quadro by 2 or 3 times and that card is barely over $100.
    No offence but you can't run CS5 on minimal or very old specifications and expect the same results as everyone else or older software. If you can't upgrade the hardware then I suggest staying with the previous version until you can. The MPE engine requires allot of resources to function especially ram and your lower spec or older system will just bottleneck the pipeline rather than speed things up.
    Eric
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