Just caught up with this thread: should have read it better as I would have realised about "one frame per machine". Doh. Sorry. In the UK, SMP machine prices have dropped to an all time low. I could upgrade one of my boxes to a dual Athlon machine for an outlay of circa 400GBP. It's bound to be cheaper in the US. Vue 4 runs fine on my dual PIII 1Ghz box but does anyone know if Vue and / or Mover 4 is optimised for Pentiums or AMD's or both? Finally, "cowing" the machine? Why a cow? 'Cos it's "milking" CPU's over the network? Or is it derived from "renderfarm"? I think the public should know. :-) Mark