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Chris: I thought of one more thing which may help as you mentioned that you have some of the frames already rendered. If you have parts of your animation which are very different in nature (ie. an exterior fly by turning into an interior walkthrough) you may see render times drop if a particular sequence of frames can render without swapping to disk. In other words, if you have any segment which could potentially render without swapping render that segment separately. Why? Once a machine swaps to disk it will always swap, even if the scene is relatively simple. Bob