I hope this doesn't come off as rude or pushy but there really is no way to shrink the file size down? I don't currently own any of those compositing apps and I'm still having enough trouble learning Maya so learning to render in passes and comping them may not be the best solution for me right now. I'm tempted to just eat it in render times and just learn patience. I've started to look into converting all of my NURBS objects to polys in the hopes that'd help. I've also deleted temp files in my folder to try and reduce clutter. Any other possible suggestions? Thanks for your time and help, Nitro. Appreciated as always.

Russell