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James, The most important thins when making .flc's is to either have your palette set to medium or use a custom palette. If you've got it set to low it will look terrible. Otherwise there's no way to make a .flc look better – besides making it bigger. As far as that's concerned, the bigger the flic the more memory it's going to require. The color depth (8-bit) is always the same. The best way to play a flc is straight out of RAM. Running it off of the hard drive will make it look jerky. You can either play it out of Animator Pro, or make sure you have your disk caching software set large enough to handle it. For example, if you were making a .flc to be used as a Windows screen saver you would want to keep it under 2Mb in size. This is due to the fact that Smartdrv defaults to 2Mb. Unless you want everyone's HD continually running, you want to have the animation get cached by Smartdrv. It will be read once off of the HD, and then it will play out of RAM. If you're doing stuff for Windows you could try the .AVI format which allows up to 24bit color. You'd need a fast machine to keep up though. Good luck. DM