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>By process(in Razor), what do you mean? Splicing, transitions, what? Clearly, Razor is not a paint program. However, just like the line between Desk Top Publishing programs and Word Processors is blurry, there is quite a blur between AS and what I read about Razor. Razor does blue screen composition, wipes, fades, picture in picture (compositing apparently four or more layers of images at once.) Obviously there is more than one way to defur this particular feline. Why would you have to load all images in at once to paint over them? That's kind of like saying you have to have an entire program loaded into memory in order to use it. If you'll excuse me, that's @!#$@#. I can swap portions of programs in and out of memory as I process them, and I'm sure it's possible to do the same with images — it may be more difficult (although I kind of doubt it) but it's surely possible. Even if the trade off was time (which it usually is in these cases) that would be far more acceptable than not being able to do it at all. For example, if you use Avid non-linear editing it takes some time to build the transitions (probably because all the images aren't in memory at once!). I wouldn't care if I had to wait minutes (or more) while AS processed the thingee. Either AS will do these things or it will clearly be a niche product that will lose any chance of becoming viable as the days of full-screen, true color animations become commonplace (and they will just as surely as 16 colors is disappearing from Windows). As many have pointed out, not too many people need to make quarter screen (or less!) animations nowadays. IMHO.