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<Your first message talked about image processing, a very different beast from compositing, >which is all you need to do in this example! Yeah, but suppose I want to do both <g>? I hate to belabor this, Greg, but for the field impaired, could you go over this just one more time? I mean, I thought that when I render an animation using fields (which I always do) that I'm really getting both fields in the one frame (in whatever field order I tell 3DS to render in), and thus lay them to tape two fields/one frame at a time. Is this not the case? This all came up because the Targa+ utility asks which field you want to grab off the video for a sequence. I assumed (silly me!) that if I wanted to get a 10 second sequence, of 300 frames, that I would need to grab 600 TGAs containing first field a, then b, then a… Somehow I would need to put them back together to work on them (say to apply effects and to overlay 3D animations), and then I could output them as normal. If I didn't put them together, then I don't understand how I could overlay animations on them (rendered how I understand them) or, even if I could overlay/process the frames, how I would then render them back to just a 10 second sequence. I know you know this stuff, but fields really still confuse me, so any help would be appreciated.