That seems to be a very common opinion, and is indeed the reason behind my consideration of Vue and C4D.

Nevertheless, I've managed some decent stuff in Poser (perhaps it's only OK because I do a lot of post work in Vegas), and render times have come down with PP2012 from 20 minutes per frame to four or five, which I agree is a tolerable order of magnitude. (Previously raytracing with transmapped hair was simply impossible!)

I would be very interested if anybody could quantify the actual time savings from using an alternative renderer to Firefly.

And what is there to look out for when importing a Poser animation? I can't get Vue to do it at all, and there seem to be plenty of other users with the same problem. How does it work out with C4D?