All the suggestions are being taken to heart. Thanks to all who took the time to reply. I tried the Honestech mpeg encoder. Maybe I just haven't figured it out properly, but I preffered the quality of divx to mpeg2. Thanks though. Its a damn fast encoder. I'll be working with it more just to make sure I didn't miss anything. I havent tried Bink, but I will tonight. As it stands, I did a quick render while I was at work, using divx. I set the quality really high, and used a very high kbps , and it looks pretty decent. I'm not going for that perfect cgi animated look (though I'm sure I will on latter projects). I'm kinda shooting for an average quality actually. Still, it's good to get a hang for everything. Thanks again everyone. ry