AzChip..I also was getting ready to purchase hash until AC mentioned on the list that bones & a few other character animation tools would be included. The final selling point was the fact the AM seems to be very very bad for video..IE very few file formats are supported and for the last 2 or 3 years it seems the program has lots of problems with alpha matte exports. I have to have good matting abilities...its to hard to key it in video otherwise...