Hey bloodsong: Try this...when you are finished with your rendering period (by that I mean all you want to render before you shut down Vue), save the image in your Pictures folder and then immediately save the scene. This will keep the render right where it was when you left off. If you let it render a bit and save the scene but not the image, it will not be in the same place as it was when you ended it last. You will have lost rendering time. I hope this made sense...I'm not very good at explaining it ;) Laurie