I was curious about your render times so I did a test. I took 2, 4 .2 GB, 2:25 QT ( animation encoded ) movies ( 720 x 486 ) and placed a 5 second iris wipe at the one minute point. Rendering back to the same QT animation codec, it took 10:50. Now, I can play back about half of it before QT starts getting the jitters do to hitting a ram wall but, it still manages to get to the end.
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