I have noticed that you all havent mentioned anything about motion blur. In the experiments I'm currently doing, I find that if I don't motion blur the images..they look computer generated on video..but if I motion blur them, they mix almost perfectly. 720 x 480 uncompressed images (pick your type..depends on if you need the extra things from a tiff or not) If you plan to resize the video to desktop size (320 by 240), you can render at the larger size and use jpg sequences very nicely..and it saves disk space. the current test I have running is pretty damn cool (even if I did do it..lol) and its using the 720 x 480 jpg sequence with motion blur, standard lighting and backdrop/background animations. Ya really need a video editor tho..a decent one. Premiere does pretty well. and the advantages of using an post editor is the ability to composite in layers to make things interact in 3 dimensions even tho the dv from the camera is 2d. Very cool effects by using transparecies and layers. my .02 :) BT