Poser's render times are totally dependent on the amount of ram, processor speed and hard disk space. Poser also doesn't utilize any kind of hardware accelleration or dual processors. The more complex the scene (the number of props, size of your texture maps, transparency, bump maps, the number of lights all affect render times. Poser has to render a shadow map for each light. Using the Daz figures with their increased poly counts greatly increases the render times as well as the pz3 file size. 5 minutes per frame with a complex scene isn't bad. I have done some animations that averaged 19 minutes per frame at 360x240 on my older machine 800 Athlon, 768Mb ram and a 40Gb hard drive for Poser alone. Hope this helps some. Ed