True - very true about the render settings - except I keep motion blur on as it looks much better for moving footage - yeah, it takes longer, but looks fantastic in motion. While most people are looking to maximize their render settings to get faster renders with the least negative effects, I don't really care about that. More often than not, I just set it to Superior, and the format to the Animation Quicktime codec.

And I know I'm harping about the Quicktime codec (keeping in mind I'm a Windows user - not a Mac guy). The "Animation" codec specifically is lossless (though there's a slider if you DO want compression - just keep it all the way up to the highest quality), and this is what it's really made for -animation. So you can have the best gradients and lines and clariy fo creating animations.

The only downside is that your video files will be enormous in comparison to anything else. One recent video ended up being just over 1111MBs for the same duration as the 23MB DV file I was incorporating it into

-Lew ;-)
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