OpenCOLLADA for 3ds Max is a performance enhanced COLLADA exporter/importer for 3ds Max 8/9/2008/2009/2010.
Today the OpenCOLLADA team released version 1.2.0 of its next generation COLLADA converters for 3ds Max.
With this new version exporting a COLLADA file from 3ds Max is up to five times faster than exporting to a binary FBX 2010.2 file and over ten times faster than using the FBX/COLLADA converter. Give it a try now and download your free version from
http://www.opencollada.org/download.html
Sebastian