I will come around full circle, just to be fair...if you DO render directly to Quicktime, you can export the image sequence from Quicktime, as well. However: if in originally rendering out to a Quiktime movie you engaged any type of lossy compression, you'll never get a perfect master back. ::::: Opera ::::: P.S. I've used this feature of quicktime to deconstruct .wmv etc., movies. Just find a converter to turn them into anything Quicktime can read, such as .mpeg, and you can get frames by exporting out of Quicktime. They are lossy images, of course. j.