mozzymagic

Hi. I have just purch VideoPad Pro. I am saving about 30 mins of widescreen .MOD files to an AVI PAL output file. Display shows 20+ hours to create the 30 min file. Is this normal, or am I missing something. Trying to create other format AVI's seems to take similarly long times. How critical is lots of RAM to file creation time compared to lots of disk space? I know I am pushing it with only 1Gb RAM in PC, but I am surprised it is so much slower in output creation than my old Ulead 11 dinosaur (but VP is faster, easier and more reliable in every other aspect). Thanks. Mozzymagic