My son has one of the lower-end Vegas programs with a few add-ons, and he’s been happy with it, except he has a crappy laptop and it takes forever to process his stuff.
I’m about to get an I-5 processor to see if it will speed him up.
Yup. Rendering MPEG2 takes time. Twice as long if you chose two pass VBR. VBR (variable bit rate) applies higher bit rate for scenes that need it. Thus, better quality video.
CBR (constant bit rate) is single pass and renders faster.
You might want to check these settings.
Either way, it takes time.