I livesynched a max file to D5. D5 stripped out all 42 xrefs. I import-merged a few back into the main max file and then used D5 assets, scatter, and particles. (Just exploring D5 abilities and resources) Created scenes to render out as a single clip. The clip is 70 to 80 seconds. The render time for the whole walkthrough was a blazing 8 minutes. In Max it would have been a day of rendering to stills then compiling them into a movie. Watch movie, find errors, or things you forgot, or things you want to change, repeat the process over and over. In D5 it was so simple and fast. Here is the link to that movie. (apologies for the low quality that youtube makes it into.) https://youtu.be/SDfBBs08f2g