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That may be, but I was also incorrect with the whole Video Post idea. It won't work. At all. Period. Why not? Because you can't apply either Alpha or a Transition (which also would've worked by using the same scanline-masking bitmap) to a "[KF Scene]" (or an .IXP Process for that matter). The only way to make it work is to render the whole thing twice, once at Every 2nd Frame with a Range starting at 1 (not 0), and again using the Video Post but bringing in the previous render as a series of numbered bitmaps with the scanmask applied as Alpha or Trans. I'd never actually tried it until after posting my previous message 'cuz we have software that will process frames and fields for us so why bother with Video Post? (The software in question is Equilibrium's DeBabelizer, which we have to use anyway to convert animations to QuickTime for importation into the ImMix TurboCube, seeing as the QuickTime Movie Maker .IXP IPAS we tried from Animetix just doesn't work reliably for us. And, of course, Animator Studio will not write out QuickTime movies reliably either. Neither will CorelMOVE. Apparently nothing on the PC can, which indicates that the bug may well be in Apple's QuickTime for Windows export routines that all these applications must use.) — Joel Ellis Rea @ M&M Communications Concepts.