[sformby] “Can I turn off the M100 hardware during AE renders (m100 7.5, AE 5)? Is there any way to use the software-only codec on OS 9?”
You can turn off the hardware, but as far as I know there is no software codec under OSX9. So it will not really speed up things for you, since you would have to “slow import” into the Media 100 i codec on import. If you