Well that sucks about the shimmering. I was assuming that the whole field/frame thing was the problem...if going to a .psd sequence still has the shimmer then you are screwed. fyi: I know with Carrara if you use post render effects that you get those types of shimmies. The post render only effects each frame...it doesnt take the whole animation into account. So if you use motion blur or depth of field and try to render an animation you are screwed. You have to manually add those effects in after effects. Auroua looks to be the only post render filter that doesnt screw up to badly, but it has massive problems with clipping that are only apparent when animating. If you think you will need to try a different program I would suggest you steer away from truespace & animation master. I am still thinking about buying one of those programs but they are lacking big time for broadcast support. They mess up simple things like matte's so its worthless trying to use it for broadcast. Carrara is lacking a lot but it at least lets me key consistantly :) Well good luck and let us know what your solution is.