Robbb, it probably wouldn't hurt to shut them down while making...

Robbb, it probably wouldn't hurt to shut them down while making the video. I don't know how fast your computer is, but with my past efforts at movie making you can't have too much power. If you computer is trying to do stuff in the background, usually dropped video frames are the first thing to happen.

I'm guessing the video link to the US is the main culprit though. Skype and msn in text mode don't take much horsepower.