Velarde- I had bad luck trying to output to psd. Sometimes Photoshop would recognize it, sometimes it wouldn't, and it rarely recognized the extra layers. I don't know why, but tif always worked. I went with what worked. ;> I also output to QT/Animation/million+/30fps when I'm not trying to composite with live video and that usually works just fine. As far as field rendering, I did try to field render once, and I got the same distortion lines that chuckeril mentioned. I believe that it's a problem of field priority, but once a frame rendered project is dropped into the time line of FCP it gets rendered to the projects compressor settings, and FCP creates the appropriate fields for output to tape. It's never been a problem. I haven't tried the latest version of the support for QT/No compression/alpha channel that 2.1 gives, since I've got a system that works! Maybe I'll give a try next time I'm between projects. :>