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1) Buy more ram. Swapping will murder your rendering times. 2) Yes, hiding will help somewhat. 3) Deleting objects not in camera, and splitting the rendering into "SEGMENTS" will help 4) If all else fails, try this: render foreground objects as shadow casting matte objects, and background objects normaly (you'll have to decide which is which <g>). Then render the foreground objects as non-matte objects using the previously rendered images as background. Michele Bousquet has an informative article on matte objects reprinted in 3D Artist issue #13, pg. 16. see ya, John Tissavary (La Luna cie)