btw

render time w/ my settings....

two 20 second sequences at 30fps, then we stretched them to 30 seconds in premier.

each series took about 48hrs on my machine.  I have a Boxx at work... its got 4 processors and 3gigs of RAM.  VUE crashed on me constantly even w/ all that.  And it crashed when I tried to render to the farm... so then I got the beta 10 update for VUE5i right after it was released and i can now render to the farm with the issues I mentioned above.  But Vue still crashes a lot, not as much as before.  but I generally avoid pressing the undo button at all cost... never know if it will work or just crash it - 90% of the time it crashes it.

in the update for Vue 5i called version 9.05 or something, there was a memory leak when you render to screen... so if you have that version, I suggest rendering in the main vue only, not to screen... may increase stability if you have that issue.