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Hi Brian: Sorry to jump in like this, but after reading your note to Timothy Lyvers I am encouraged to write to you… Most comments in this forum really push hard for the high end VTR and a single frame controller hooked up to the computer, your suggestion to look into a less expensive solution interests me since I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to my project: animate architectural drawings so that a walkthru can be recorded onto a VTR. I'm not able to go the singleframe controller routine (too much $) so I'm aiming for the .flc file on the hard disk to be played thru animator pro towards my TARGA+16/32. Using an RCA plug I input into my VTR and the result isnt as good as if I was frame by frame but to start me off it's not too bad..You are correct that thru the HD on a system ( mines a 486-50 EISA) playback isnt 30 frames per sec.. A 900 frame animation rendered to a .flc file (53mg) took about 2 min to playback..If had been frame by frame would have been 30 sec..It was done at 512 x 486 to match the TMODE #9 on my TARGA. I'm new at this and still learning the basics but if you have any other suggestions E-Mail me the details since I dont always check all the messages in this forum (budget is tight). regards, Bob Smith