Hi
1.Your topic title is “Computer run slow with V9”, but no mention about it in your post
2.What troubles do you have loading your 30 minutes clip? What are your procedures?
3.“I tried loading the media and splitting in V9 but that didn’t work”.

One thing is loading the clip to PD9; other is having the clip in the time line, then split.When you first open PD9, you must import a clip to your MEDIA ROOM, then drag it or insert in the selected track in the TIMELINE, then you can split by moving the cursor to the position you want to split and press the SPLIT button. You can also TRIM or multitrim your clip in the timeline. (Note: you can’t split the clip in the Media Room)

You must be more specific in describing your issue and add some procedures in order that we can help you

Regards, Nicolas

OK, sorry for the brevity. I'm so frustrated with this whole thing........

My original problem is that if I'm editing a media clip longer than say 30 minutes, PD9 runs brutally slow. I was told it was because my computer doesn't have the fire power to do any better. I'll buy that.

So, I have a media clip that is an hour and 40 minutes long, so I want to reduce its size so I can edit it. I tried moving it to the timeline, but PD9 still runs slow after I split the clip and "remove" the unwanted portion. Therefore I'm looking for a way to split the clip in the Media Room for even outside PD9. I tried to "segment" the clip but that didn't work either.

TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. Does im violating any CL forum contract?