3D Animation in CS4 problem or normal?

I'm just wondering if animating a 3D object in PS CS4 is exceptionally slow or if I'm doing something wrong...
Win7 Pro, 6-core 980X, 24G RAM...Production Premium CS4. I shut off all the Aero stuff before I opened Photoshop.
I took a relatively small jpg (1200x800) and ran the 2-sided plane filter. I keyframed the initial 3D position (rotation only) then rotated 90 degrees on X and keyframed the new 3D rotation at 5 seconds. Two keyframes on the timeline. To preview the animation... well I couldn't because after 5 minutes only 3 frames were cached.
Is this behavior to be expected?
I realize PS isn't exactly the first choice for animating 3D objects but since the filters are there I figure Adobe must intend us to use them...
Thanks for any thoughts you can share...
btw - is animating 3D objects any better in CS5?
Thanks again!

well I couldn't because after 5 minutes only 3 frames were cached.
Errrm... 3D rendering in final quality is a time-consuming process even in dedicated 3D programs. Some frames on cinematic movies render for hours or days even. So in that light, having to wait is pretty much normal, especially at larger resolutions. I'm afraid you won't find the key to happiness if you expect anything in 3D to be realtime, much less in PS. You should simply get used to things taking time and not being "previewable" otehr than the rough OpenGL stuff. Even in programs like Lightwave, modo or anything that uses Mental Ray's iRay you will still see some delay even in their adaptive preview renderers, something which PS simply doesn't have. And even there things are dictated by the actual render resolution, antialiasing quality, reflections, refractions, soft shadows vs. hard shadows and whatnot. Far too complex a matter to answer in a single post. So to summarize: You may play with teh quality settings and create a lower res document for previewing, but otehrwise you are seeing something that is normal. And things aren't better in CS5, just different.
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