Well, my current verdict is that AE7 is shaky at best. When I try to render the Total Training Benchmark, I get a strange error about a previously selected directory. I was able to import one of my old AE6 projects and render. In trying to get around the error on rendering the benchmark, AE started crashing and now won’t open any projects.
Before AE stopped opening my files (crashes as soon as I select Open Project in the File Menu), the application seem snappy and responsive on my Mac Mini Core Duo 1.66 Ghz with 1GB of RAM.
Ken Blankenship