On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:25:54 -0600, "Brad Smith" <rokclimr@ionet.net> wrote:

>This program has been nothing but stress so far. I downloaded the trial when

>the program first appeared. I loved the program (I currently use 3d 3.0),

>but the render times made it non-useable for me. Well, then the patch comes

>out, but I can't try it because I have the trial version, so I buy the

>program a few nights ago and download the patch. So far it's still

>unuseable!

>

>Here's a link to a test project I'm using.

>http://www.smithprod.com/test studio 3d.c3d

>

>I render at best output quality and fair curve quality. I'm outputting a

>frame-based targa sequence with alpha channel. I can render this in 3d 3.0

>in exactly one minute. In cool 3d it took 9 minutes to get 52% completed,

>then I gave up.

>

>My system is as follows:

>AMD 1800XP

>512MB RAM

>NVIDIA Ti4200 128MB RAM

>

>I've tried going back to the NVIDIA 30.82 drivers, disabling smart render,

>and going to 16bit color. Nothing helps. I guess that patch installed

>correctly because it says version 1.0.1 now. Any ideas?

The renders are high-quality - just wait for them...

My complaints with this program: the "upgrades"

cost about as much as the whole program alone; the

timeline on my version is a "royal pain", and appears

to be defective; unlike Ulead's CG-Infinity (with its

less interesting styles) where you can import AVI

files into the titler for GREAT overlay, Cool 3-D

doesn't allow this (as far as I know), and trying to

cleanly key the results over motion-video is hopeless...

BTW, the title-bar text for www.visitithaca.com was

made with this program, and it's a good one for making

web animated GIFs...;-)