heheh graham i wont give you my macpro ..
but i am still having trouble with it. i found my self rendering long scenes and heavy effects as targa sequence because it doesnt keep much frames on the memory.. actually i am now doing a music video with some real footage and mostly animation.. when it comes to 3d layers and cameras + motion blur + lots of particular stuff it gets really stuck.. but still when rendering as targa sequence sometimes it crashes.. i am definetly sure that i dont have any chance of rendering it as quicktime-animation..
so this is the situation.. also the plugins really have something to do with it..
i just rendered 350 frames in 50 minutes which really shouldnt take that much time.