I've been going around in circles trying to find a good compromise between rendering speeds and image quality. I am using cartoon figures, without shadows, so it really doesn't have to be anything fancy. I read in this forum that DivX was the best codec to use, but when I try it the colors are mottled, looks terrible. I've messed around with the DivX settings, rendering settings (both P4 and Firefly) and it still looks lousy compared to uncompressed frames. If anyone is successfully using DivX I'd appreciate it if you would post both your rendering and DivX settings.