Hi Jason @jasonbadum ,
7 minutes is very long. Kent uses 512 Samples and Denoising (and he Renders at 50% Resolution). on my computer (RTX 4090) that took about 16 seconds for a Frame.

If I use 1024 Samples and 100% Resolution, it takes a bit less than 90 seconds, so that might be what you are using.
I’d suggest to try and stay under 2 minutes per frame, when Rendering an animation like this.