I got a dvd player this week, and wanted to make sure it could play dvd's my mac burns, so i decided to render out some simple camera moves through my snowy scene so i could burn my first dvd.

it's taking my dual 1.25 mac an hour and fifteen minutes per frame (at 1440x960 which will get scaled down to 720x480 for final output).

it's taking my girlfriend's G4-400 3.5 hours per frame, and it's only taking my G3 266 45 minutes per frame. Hmmmm.

the G3 is running in OS9, which requires less overhead than X, but i believe the real time saver is that the camera move i'm having it render doesn't ever see the icicles. i've noticed that the transparency and refraction settings on them kill my render speeds.

i'm bummed out that the frames are taking this long on the slower machines, it makes GI very impractical. thank goodness i can render in the background on my MP machine. i would go out of my mind if i had to leave it alone for the next 4 days.