tmpgenc xpress 3.0 problem

[Bytez]

My system specs are Dual Core Pentium D 3.0ghz with 2GB of ram, radeon x300 128mb video card running on Windows MCE.

Using tmpgenc xpress 3.3 (newest 3.0 version), I'm tryiing to encode a 5 minute 352x480 clip in mpeg to a ntsc svcd file. tmpgenc takes 1 hour and 20 minutes to complete the job. I made sure all settings are correct, using multithread for filtering,, enabling all the extensions, etc etc. I only used deinterlace, crop, resize, motion search to highest with error correction, vbr (2-pass), and minimal noise reduction filters in tmpgenc. It it normal to take this long on a high end machine? my friend with a P4 2.8ghz encode the same clip with the same exact settings in around 25minutes what can be wrong with my system? I reinstalled tmpgenc 3-4 times already.

[Baldrick]

NO, it is not normal.

Tried other encoders? are they also increadible slow?
Tried tmpgenc plus ?

[Bytez]

i tried vegas 6.0 and it is very fast. I don't know what's wrong with tmpgenc 3.0 xpress I don't want to use tmpgenc plus.

[Wile_E]

Set motion search to "estimate" or "fastest". Why are you deinterlacing? NTSC playback on TV is interlaced. It is suggested never to deinterlace. You are throwing away half of each frame.

[Bytez]

the problem is not the motion search cause a friend using an inferior system can encode it 5x faster using the exact same file and encode settings.

I had to deinterlace cause the video is interlaced, capped from tv.