I have just started tinkering with Vue d'espirit 5, and am very surprised at how long it takes to  render the sample scenes that came with the program (My Poser 6 renders typically take less than 20 minutes on my fairly fast PC: a Pentium4 2.8 GHz with 2 Gigabytes of RAM).  Even the simplest Vue 5 sample scenes (e.g. the one with the ball and the fluoroscent light in the dark grey room) take over 45 minutes to render on my PC: - and that's with no adjustments on my part: I open the scene, click "Render", and have to wait 45 minutes for completion.

Please tell me: approximately how long does Vue take to render your images?  I understand that total render time varies along with the complexity of the scene and the rendering options chosen, but can you give me a "ballpark" range for the majority of your simple images?

And if 30-45 minutes sounds about right for simple scenes, what would you suggest I do to speed things up a bit?  Purchase a render farm?  Are there companies out there that can cheaply render Vue images for me?