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Doug, OK. I have done some research on the gamma stuff and here's the lowdown. 3D Studio is an image generation program. Razor PRO is not an image generation program its a compositor and editor. When images are generated (eg rendered) it is best to do any gamma corrections at this time, not later in post. The upshot is you need to be correcting the gamma in 3DS. If the output you are seeing in Razor PRO is not correct then you are not giving it the right source images and the gamma needs to be corrected in the rendering process in 3DS before you put the images to RP. Having said that, we can write an effect to correct gamma (I've added it to the list) but my advice is to correct the TGAs you are rendering in 3DS before you hand the images to RP. (for additional information on Gamma correction please see the latest issue of Dr Dobbs) You mention a problem writing to a series of TGAs. We have many, many people doing this, so I am sort of at a loss to know what the problem is here. Please tell me how much RAM you have. What size are the source images, and what size are the output images ? What color depth are the TGAs you are generating ? Try loading the pondduck.avi in the examples directory and writing out a series of 160×120 TGAs. What happens ? Jamie Carr in:sync