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Alec: I've been reading your thread and agree with you. The thing that I find to me most interesting is the "sliding scale" that people use to judge video quality. I've had to include some video that was shot on S-VHS with an X-ray system onboard an aircraft in flight, or a handheld 8mm camcorder on the same flight while they flew through a low gravity parabola. The pictures can be pretty poor (particularly the grainy B&W X-rays!) but nobody ever complains. If any of my animations looked that bad, I would certainly hear about it! The people that I work for (and the people that see the animation that I do) expect the titles and the animated stuff to look good, but they forgive a lot in the experiment video. I guess that people appreciate the uniqueness of the "live" video. I've recently seen some TV programs that included some of the video from the Apollo program. It looks pretty bad, but you do get a sense of it being history in the making, and I'm grateful that there was any video coverage available at all. I guess most people aren't so jaded by TV and motion pictures that they care more about the picture than the event! Chris