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James, There is a peculiar situation in 3D Studio that may be causing your problems. It seems that if you rerender the same frame of your animation that 3D Studio will sometimes fail to send object coordinate data to Video Post entries. Since LenZFX relies heavily on this data, if it is not found the effect will fail to render. This can happen if you are rendering any type of flare (which keys off of a light's position) or AURA or STARLIGHT – BY OBJECT – (which keys off of an object's position. Once again, the problem crops up if you render a frame (say frame 10), make a few changes, rerender frame 10, make some changes, rerender frame 10 and so on. The work around is very easy. Go to the Keyframer and jump to frame 9 then back to 10. Doing anything in the Keyframer seems to reset things somehow. This is a problem in 3D Studio – not LenZFX – which has been confirmed by Tom Hudson of the Yost Group. (I only mention that because it seems that 'some people' are being to quick to cry 'bug' in LenZFX.) I hope this solves your problem. If not your best course of action is to call us directly (504) 468-7898 and let us assist you over the phone. David – Digimation