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Hello, I was just messing around with Houdini FX and made a small animation of a cube sliding. When I tried to render it with a mantra node (1x1 pixel sample size and 1 max ray samples), I was surprised how slow it was! It's just a simple cube with a camera.

When it actually renders a frame it goes by fairly quickly. But it waits between each frame for a very long (more than 20 seconds) and seems like it isn't doing anything.

So I thought maybe my computer was too slow (laptop) so I moved to my desktop which has a 1GB Nvidia card and quadcore i7 and it still ran just as slow! Any ideas what the issue might be? I attached my file below.