Thanks. Here's what I ended up with. It's fairly close to what I was shooting for.

Thanks, this is all very helpful. One of the main problems I was having was the scaling. I was having a difficult go of getting the image scaled down.

Aw, very cool.

Thanks, the Full Frames Uncompressed worked just fine.

Oh, okay, thanks Little Dragon - Let me experiment with that.

I don't think I understand. On the PC, my Make Movie options are AVI, Image and Flash. No MOV option. Also, at what point does TIFF format come into play? Is that something you select as part of the render settings?

I have the same question, except I'd like to render out to video with an alpha channel background. Possible?

I'm doing just that now. I set it to make a movie with draft settings and quarter size over background color (versus my imported jpg). As a side note, if I "Make Movie" with the set to Display Settings (versus "Current Render Settings"), it does fine. At least I see my character and the motion I expected to see.

Wolf359, I guess I'm not yet aware of needing to chose a camera, as it relates to making the movie. I assumed it would create a movie of what I saw when I push play in the animation pallet. I don't see camera as a choice in the render settings. Where is that selected? Thanks. Stewer, thanks. I'll experiment with your suggestions.