I just downloaded the trial of LumenRt on Monday and purchaced it on Tuesday. I was very supprized on how fast the program worked. There were several items that I did like about the live cube and several items that I posted on thier forum about and it seems that E-on is working on solving allot of the issues that have been brought up in the past. I am a novice at animation but created this from the live cube. The video is 44 seconds long and out of LumenRT there were 2 -1.4 gig files and another 450 meg file to make 3 sections of the video. It exported the AVI files in under 5 min. and I ran the files thru Handbrake and squashed the crap out of them down to 12 megs. I then used Quicktime to put the files together and again squashed them down to a very nice 6 meg file. This process in total took under an hour, the last video I took out of VUE PLE for 30 seconds took over 8 hours to produce. To say the least I am very happy about my results and the fast animation that LumenRT Produced. I am now in the process of looking into Sketchy Physics and seeing if I can create some moving clouds, people, doors, ect. The face me trees are off of 3d warehouse and am working on gatherig up better examples soon.

My 2 cents

Chris