Yes, Jeff, it does work - a few points just in case anyone out there is interested. All as you suggested, but I dialled in 1 frame at 1fps and it only outputted a single frame/tiff as required. Works with all the doc. styles, and just out of interest I wondered what the max. size of file it could cope with was. It didn't like 10000 by 10000 or 9000 by 9000 pixels but it coped with 8000 by 8000 - took about 12 to 15 mins (wasnt timing) on my 800Meg PC. As I couldn't get out once it had started outputting I wasnt keen to find the exact limit! the 244 Mb file took about 4mins to open in Pshp 5.5 (256mb) so I wont be doing this very often. Thanks again - it's nice to know I can get meshes of reasonable size for blending purposes etc...pp