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The 3D Studio manual does a pretty poor job of covering this issue. Newer video cards do make life simple with 1.0 aspect ratios, but standard VGA (and the basic AAPLAY flic player) use an aspect ratio of 0.82. Life gets really wierd if you have a flic (0.82) that you want to print (1.0) or show on a different monitor (1.0) and then need to send out to a video frame buffer (1.23, 1.27, 1.05,…)!!! Also, some image files are saved with explicit aspect ratios and are corrected for whatever display or print automatically, and some are not! As far as I know, there is no handy, idiot proof, one-step way to convert images and animations between different aspect ratios. Donald Newlands