Ok ya'll I am half exhilirated and half bummed out.  My 30 frame animation took almost 7 hours to render under the all out firefly settings the quality is OUTSTANDING and I can't stop watching a half punch but at this rate I'll be 90 before my movoe is finished.  I am running a sony vaio with 1 gig ram 256 int video geforce card and a 2.4 gig processor do you guys have these long renders on such short animations or am I doing something wrong?  I rendered at half quality firely, example 3 buckets, 80 % compression quality but it just doesn't look as good and the p4 rening is just out of the question, about what kind o machine do I need to have much faster render times?  share with me your system specs and render times at full quality please.