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I agree, the developers would make a killing for a quality composition program like After Effects/Composer/Jaleo, etc. Too bad Yost Group's kinda busy at the time.. (you are, aren't ya? <g>) or I'd say they should do it. Apparently Adobe doesn't frequent this forum, or aren't listening, because they definately could be making some money off of Premiere/PAR, After Effects, etc.. Couple things I'd like to have: alpha channeled objects that are keyframable around the screen (like old Rio Animator, but 90's), with automatic dropshadowing. Interactive levels, transparency, etc. with a positional light source. So you can put a dot somewhere on the screen, and it'll move the dropshadow around, kinda like raytraced shadows, but simpler. (could move objects around too, not limited to dropshadows.) Or mabe just keyframable dropshadow levels, settings, etc. Additive, Subtractive, If lighter/darker, color, hue, difference, multiply, etc, etc. per object, just like Picture Publisher object operands. powerful keying for poorly lit walls, etc. This would let you select a couple colors from the picture to use, instead of just one. background removal- removing the background using a bitmap to use as the subtractor. For "keying" type things without blue/green screens. You would take a static picture of the background, and then use that static picture as reference to figure out what's foreground, and subtract all the similar areas (background) from the entire clip. (camera must not move, but SW would give a little tolerance for tripod shake) -just a few of the many ideas banging around in my head. Some already done, some not. (some being improved) Now if only I had a few programmer slaves lying around.. JNJ