Richard,

Suppose there was a way to have a playmode that would turn off all effects, strip down the Catalyst mode to a bare minimum with full maximization of the acceleration and processor functions with the exception of cross dissolves for HD content while keeping the stop if at zero function in there. Would this speed things up enough to get more juice flowing?

Sort of get it gown to a basic stripped down version of Catalyst -- similar action as opening up a bunch of quicktime segments, while just using quicktime to open them.

Don't know if this would be worth the effort but i certainly notice that I can open more QT streams (outside of cat) simultaneously without losing playback rate, than in catalayst.

I do have 2.5 g of Ram though, and I think QT caches to ram. That's it, nevermind, I forgot, it does cache to ram cause after a while, i stop hearing my disks spinning.

Sorry.

CC