Quality is not an issue... what settings will produce the quickest render?

In the Render quality I turned everything off except Apply Materials. Still very slow. (I tried it without materials, too, but all the objects were rendered flat black, and it was STILL slow as hell)

I've got the compression quality turned down to 50%, the size of the screen is 500x213 at 72dpi.

I've got making it look crappy totally licked. I just can't seem to get a fast render into the repetoir.

Any suggestions?