The test file was a 27 MB Photoshop photo. The FOUR Photoshop effects were timed using Photoshop's built-in timer. A DEMO version is available from Adobe if you want to test your own machine. I've just added. It's a 3D modeling application.
Cinema comes with various example documents.
It keeps track of the rendering time to the nearest whole second. I used the newest 2.01 version of Apple's iMovie . I used a stopwatch to time how long it took to render the 188 frames. Only catch is that if you duplicate my test using version 1.02, it only renders 122 frames. With a stop watch, I timed it to the nearest tenth of a second.