1. Export 200 frames. The tenth frame is exported four minutes later. Average 2.5 frames per minute.
2. Note the time it takes to export 100 frames is 46 minutes later, or 2.17 frames per minute.
3. The 200th frame is not done in 92 minutes. It's done in 184 minutes, bring the overall average down to 1.08 frames per minute.
4. Note that if I had exported 400 frames, which I would NEVER do now until this issue is fixed, it would take the better part of a day or maybe more to export.
5. After the export, iClone is useless and must be restarted.

Mind you, all this exporting is before IRAY even begins to start rendering. It's almost debilitating. I remember exporting being slow in iClone 7, but not a progressive nightmare.

Until this is fixed, I'll have to export in chunks of 150, since the dropoff is not so bad at 150. The problem with that is that you have to throw away 60 frames for simulation. You can't have hair and clothing flying around every 150 frames, so you have to back stitch, and discard the simulation frames and even then, the hair doesn't 100% line up. You can tell the video was stitched. So I had to turn off dynamics.

One fix for this would be an option to have the simulation happen OUTSIDE the start of the export, IRAY or not. OR really, just have it do the entire simulation in one frame and THEN start the render. I've never understood why the simulation would ever be included in a render. Even in playback, why not hust have the simulation in lace and THEN play?