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Okay. Anyone following this thread. I appreciate all your input. I think I've narrowed the problem down a little further. I thought it was fixed, but I was mistakeon. sigh. My animation starts with a white screen. Two vertical rectangles fly in from the right and the left and join in the center to form a square. The surface of these rectangles is transparency mapped with an alpha channel sequence. The sequence is of a silhouette of a hammer hitting a nail. So the black square is cut out with the background (white) sillouette of a hammer hitting a nail. Now, when I clicked on field rendering, it fixed the flying in of the two rectangles to not be blurry/junky on the edges. They look smooth. But the transparency sequence still appears exactly identical. Should I have created my alpha channel with field rendering? Is this possible? My fix (for the moment) has been to render the squares flying in with field rendering. And then the rest of it with soft edges, high anti-aliasing. This has not fixed the problem, but softened it so much that it isn't too bad. Have I found a bug? Is it not field rendering the motion in the image sequence? Again, I appreciate any input. I am willing to upload my scene file and object. Anything. Hell, I'll next day them to anyone! Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. Sean Howard // Dreaming of smooth edges //