C'mon Steeeve - we know it's you... Rick ;-) >> From another list: > > "I've been at Apple's developer conference and had a chance to install > and > try out After Effects on a new G5. > > I ran the Night Flight file that has come to be the standard for AE > benchmarking. Since I didn't want to sit there and watch it render for > hours, I ran just the first 10 interlaced frames from the project's > pre-set render queue... > > Here are my results for this test on the three computers I have > available > to me: > > 1 x 1.0 GHz G4 PowerBook 17" - ~30 minutes (3 min/frame) > > 2 x 2.66 GHz Pentium Xeon from Boxx - 11 min, 39 sec (1.2 min/frame) > > 2 x 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 - 6 min, 1 sec (0.6 min/frame) >