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>>multiple image map… I don't know if it could apply to your requirements, but I did something very similar just last week. I had four viewpoints (top, left, front & camera) of animated action, kind of like an animated engineering drawing. I rendered each viewport to a little less than a 1/4 of the final image size, made IFL's, and used Video Post to position each image and composite them against a blue background to make a border between and around each quadrant. The compositing goes very quickly as each image is small. This would have taken much longer if the source images had to be rescaled in VP. If the source images were the wrong size, I would consider a rescaling pass thru VP to make proper sized copies. The whole thing was a lot easier than I had suspected. If, as you mentioned, you have to modify the timeline later, editing the IFL's and recompositing should be relatively painless. BTW, don't forget that you can hold an image in VP for an arbitrary time simply by duplicating entries in the IFL. Sorry, but I don't know of any canned shortcut or easier way, other than talking someone else into doing it. <g> (It looks like Ralph has a good idea) JKJ