I'm not sure about the latest service pack; I'll check. The animation is 220 frames @12 fps.

OK, ready for a REAL newbie-Q?...

I used the term 'render', but now I'm not sure I used it correctly. When I 'make movie', I get a status bar sayin "Writing AVI Movie: Frame xxx" When I was playing with some smaller attempts, as soon as that was done, my media player would launch with my mini-movie. Currently I see that it has reached frame 220 (last frame) and it has been stuck there for about an hour. My task manager shows my CPU usage at 100%, but MEM usage is low. Is this normal, or am I crashed (it's running on a different computer than this; it's the only thing going). I do have some textured walls and floor going in the animation, four lights with some shadows, some camera movement. Is that the issue?

Sorry if these are dumb questions, but I'm doing my best searching the boards etc. for answers already posted. I truely do appreciate the help.

K