1. Rendering a YouTube upload (wmv).
2. Creating a DVD - authoring phase.
Both were a small video of mixed video clips and zoomed photos. See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM-I4alyXcs
Creating DVD was at 8x speed, simple default menu, HQ best quality, 556 mb output
YouTube circumvention was to render as MP4 and manually upload instead of using PD youtube procedure
No other apps open or running on the computer.
Will return to build 2504 if possible.