Rendering performacne of Vegas MovieStudio 14 Issue Summary


I am testing MovieStudio 14
I have a Dell M4500, i7, 8-core, 8Gb RAM, NVIDIA quadro
Editing has good performance, no complaints.
9 minute video w/4 transitions and oldtime movie effect takes 12 hours to render HD quicktime.  
My machine does not grind to a halt while rendering.
Per post I read,  I downgraded NVIDIA  driver, now it takes 5-6 hours to render.
For comparison, I own Adobe premiere elements 12 on the same machine and that takes about 3-4 hours.


Question
I am asking how to improve the performace of MovieStudio 14?  Or any of these editing tools.

What I don't want to do is buy all new software and/or upgrades (or even a new laptop) if these tools need certain settings, drivers, optical drives or new hardware.

thanks

UPDATE

Thanks to everyones input I bought Vegas MovieStudio platinum 15, diabled all services not needed and installed my SSD.
I was able to render a 7 minute video in Quicktime HD in 70 minutes!  Acceptable to me.
It is normal, that different software outputs different results in different time ranges. Maybe the effect you use in AP Elements is much simpler than the one in MovieStudio. Or Movie Studio uses more ressources to run. Or the settings were not exactly equal.

In general you improve rendering perfomance with the following steps:


Close internet connection
Remove all media from the computer that is not needed for the rendering
Deactivate temporarily all programs in background (e.g. anti virus) that are not needed ( ATTENTION: Don't take any risks. "Maybe" always means "Leave it!")
Only open data that is directly related to the media you render. ( No other projects in background )
Leave the system alone during work
For Windows: Defrag Harddisk before rendering