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Hal, LW is a Great 2D/3D image processing and DVE (Digital Video Effects) engine. Lots of commercial s/w has been written to take advantage of LWs image rendering abilities. Sounds like you pretty much got it, I guess your not an animator YET. Once you get a taste you may like it :^) Thats where the Amiga REALLY shines. I'll try and go through the whole process for you: 1) Grab the frames you want with the Toaster and make sure they are named sequentially (grab.001,grab.002…). You may need to save the Framestores out as IFFs through TPaint. LW should be able to handle FS format sequntial images as long as the names are correct. 2) Load the Sequence into LW and set it as a Background Sequence in the Effects pannel. 3) Next you need to set up LW to render the images you want. In the Camera pannel set Square Pixels in the Pixel Aspect Ratio req. Set whatever Image res and degree of AA you may want. Not much use scaling the images unless your transferring the images on something besides floppy. It just makes things more difficult when files are larger than a single floppy. 4) In the Record pannel set Save RGB Images to where ever you want to save the rendered images and a file name for the sequence (like ram:grab-n.). Be sure to add the . at the end of the file name and LW will add the frame #s after that. Select the RGB Image Format youd like to use (IFF, or Targa ). Targa is one of the most universal image formats around and everyone seems to support it with little trouble. Its just not a copressed format so the files are kinda big relatively. 5) Theres no need to add a 3D object to your scene in LW. It renders Background images very quickly :^) Now go to the Render panel and set to render the frames you want and Automatic then OK.. Now take a break and let LW do its thing. 6) Transfer Targa files to PC formatted floppies and your ready to go :^) Hope this helps, ….John