Kixum,

I understand your reasons. However, the popularity of a benchmark is also measured by its ease of use and - unfortunately - the patience of its users :) A lot of people won't run the bench if it takes too long, and won't contribute results (which is the point for any benchmark). The fact that we, hardcore users, render images in much higher resolution is irrelevant : most people don't. That's why I will use it in 800x600, which is by the way a reasonable compromise, as it is close to video resolution used for non-HD animations.

And as for it's longevity, in my experience nothing really lasts that long in the software world :) When Carrara 6 goes out in maybe a year, the renderer will have changed, and the results probably won't be comparable to C5Pro results. So even if C6 read scenes from C5, we would have to rebuild a new database with C6 results. If, at this time, we feel that the render times are too fast (I really doubt that :), we can always increase the resolution.