Greg, if you don't mind me asking - what video making program are you using for this?

I just hope you aren't using Windows Movie Maker because after having made dozens of videos myself, that program is notorious for freezing up and crashing when it has a large amount of footage/photos in it, so if you plan on making a nice quality video you might want to try something like Adobe Premiere....but that program takes a lot of patience and time to figure out, I still haven't..lol

MAGIX Movie maker Pro...

Its some expensive program i got a keygen for... my windows movie maker freezes as soon as it loads... lol...

AND I set the priority high and close unneeded processes when I use it