...this really does noticeably drag down your computer. I have tested it on 2 units I have, a MacBook Pro, 2.16 Intel, 2 gig ram and a PowerMac Duo G5 2.0 with 4 gigs ram.

Both units have 256megs on the videocard and both started to perform like quicksand when I was going through the effects for this plugin. Since getting my MacBook Pro I have had no issues in results to it slowing down, even doing complex editing it is still responsive and peppy. The same goes for the G5. The odd thing is, this plugin continues to make the machines slightly lethargic even after I turned off the effects. Once I closed iChat, it slowly came back to normal status. So this plugin is really sucking up the resources.

I appreciate and applaud the developers for their creativity, but the resource needs alone for this have turned me off of this fun plugin. Though I am excited to use such abilities in iChat, like desktop sharing, movie sharing, presentations or photo sharing I will hold out for Leopard next year and see how Apple implements such abilities into iChat.

If a way could be found to make this plugin tighter and work more efficiently and optimized and not as taxing it would be a fun plugin to have for the money, but at this point, when even Apple's top of the line laptop, one that runs Motion quite well, starts to crawl when using it....to me that is not good.