Ditto that amen. I've managed to assemble a nice suite of tools for CG work, and wouldn't dream of claiming to be a 'pro' in any sense of the word at this time. Ghu knows I can't use Modo yet, or 94% of AE7Pro....and with the 6 day work week, it is going to take a hell of a lot longer than I would like to begin to master the basic functions (but one of these days.....). And back on topic, while I can work around the Kai Krause interface just fine, BH has a point about the lack of flexibility there. If not in the Px line, then the PxPro line should definitely have at least some customization of the interface possible beyond hiding things behind the viewport. And svdl is right on the missing minimums that should be packed under the 'Pro' banner. On the other hand, look at Vue. It wasn't Vue Pro that wound up in ILM's pipeline. It was Vue Infinite. But Pro was the testbed for the underpinnings of -most- of what went into Infinite. As this is the first PPro version, it's probably safe to say that they went conservative; breaking half the app to get a sexy pro look would have made them look just the opposite. But a 10 node network render system is not small change for an animator. It's nothing for a pro studio, which would need the potential for triple digit renderfarms, but for the small business it is a step up. We also don't know what changes are in the first stages of implementation. The last two surveys have had weightmapping included as a wanted feature, and I'm pretty sure that all the animators and quite a few of the single frame image creators asked for it. I'd be willing to bet that at least the stubs for some form of weightmapping exists in the code, just as the animation layers were present but not turned on in P6. SM has also said in releases that there are tweaks coming to both P7 and P7Pro. Maybe some of those missing features will get turned on, or at least hinted at existing in the next full release..... In the meantime, I'll enjoy the extra speed and stability that PPro has over P7, and when I upgrade the main box this year to full 64 bit, see how the networking works....