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Pete, I don't want to take Mike's place, but he did indicate that a future version of Imagine would have alpha channel support, and knowing Impulse, I'm quite confident that, perhaps a version or two later, we'll have a renderer that outputs two streams of frames, each to its own directory: rendered images and alpha-channel images. In the meantime, you can roll your own alphas by creating a duplicate of the .imp directory once your animation is "frozen"; changing all object references in the Action editor to the new project directory's "objects" sub-directory; editing the objects by removing all textures and brushes, and making them matte black; and setting the Globals background to all white on the +/-Zenith and Horizon fields. The result: a version of your animation with featureless black objects on a white background. Blaq!