thanks for your replies. Opera - I'll let you know, but so far it's not an emergency. :) I just want to be able to create my animations as movies... :) but thatnks for the offer, that's very kind of you. I will try looking at theunoffical VirtualDub support forums. xoconostle - I'm glad I'm not alone. :) but I can't seem to even choose the codec settings... unless I'm looking in the wrong place? I am supposed to do that in Video---> Compression, right?...