CompuServe Messages

I have yet to try to convert from ani to tga as I always render to tga's first then convert. It's probably due to my untrusting nature and if I render for 10 hours with 4 slaves tied up I don't want a single file to deal with. I like being able to just rerender one or two frames to correct any minor problems. Something about decompressing and then recompressing back to ani to do this fix doesn't sit well with me and the artifacts issue. Hard drive space is not an issue here because I have ample so I just stick to rendering the old fashion way. I am concerned that the error messages in the PAR.exe could be a little more accurate, though. I hope Dave White is following these threads so he can report these little problems back to his software people. They seem to be quite responsive when they know about a problem. I am still impressed how they wrote a 5 second preroll for me.