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Hi Ted, My reccomendation is to ALWAYS start with a high BlkLimit setting when pulling TGAs to the PAR drive. Start high enough so you get the "Block size Limit too high" message. This tells you that you have gone beyond the performance capabilities of the PAR HD. Then back off the Block Size Limit until your TGAs are being compiled nicely to the PAR. This guarantees that you are getting the *best* image quality considering your HD and TGA characteristics, with a minimum of JPEG compression. I'm not suprised that your stuff looks pretty good at a lower limit. You may or may not see an immediate improvement with *all* animations. However, using this method will *always* get you the best results the system can deliver. The only other consideration would be this: As the HD gets loaded with ani files, the PAR is forced to use the slower, inside tracks of the HD, and image quality may degrade a bit, along with noticable lower Block Limit Size capabilities. A simple archiving of .ani files to DOS and a quick format of the PAR drive will get ya back to the very top quality the thing can do. -Alan