"what I like is that Carrara pro has a rendering panel that gives real time rendering stats including time elapsed,frames per min/hour and estimated completion times which updates constantly to account for scene changes that slow things down like blurry reflections& vector blurs etc." Didn't C4D show render stats like that? I know Poser is totally absent of such features (which IS a serious problem for animators). 3dsmax displays the same stats as Carrara, including a display showing how long the previous frame took to complete. Very useful indeed.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.