First time using premiere pro CS5 to edit T2i footage. Coming from Vegas, it definitely improves the laggish playback problem. After hours of editing wedding footage and now I am finally ready to render. Export as MPEG2 wide screen high quality, and discover the render remaining time is 18hours for a mere 1 hour footage!!

Well, my machine is a year old, i7 920, 8GB ram, win7, 64bit. But 18hrs rending time?!

Please help, and guide me to the right direction. please please