That is always how I render animations wabe, in Poser for instance. [By the way, never to jpg, that is a lossy compression, always to PNG or TIFF, non-lossy] But I think the problem is worse than you realize. From what I have been lead to believe, if you are rendering to images with the Vue Renderfarm it does not actually fully save each individual frame out to a directory as it goes along...it creates temporary files that -- at the end of the entire run -- turn INTO individual frames. The problem is...if there is a crash (and therefore the render stops, leaving a bunch of temps and not actual finished frames) VUE is supposed to be able to be aware of the temps on restart and recover. In the past, that has not always worked, and the individual frames of full renders have been lost. This is really bad. lanaloe77 is reporting that now VUE apparently DOES NOT EVEN SEE the temps at all after restart after a crash. This is really REALLY bad. ::::: Opera :::::