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<< I watch those videos and am amazed at the clarity of thoe architectural renderings. Even at a "great" distance. Whenever I render an archirectural <oops about the spelling> scene it looks rather blurry unless you're right up on an object. I turned motion blur off and am rendering to the PAR. >> << I would like to get some tips …about how to get real high quality looking images when rendering even still images. >> I'm not sure if your complaint about the bluriness is due to the image-generation process, the recording process, or both. Having said that, for animation – there's always a trade-off decision to be made regarding texture & edge sharpness vs. motion artefacts (edge-crawl, texture scintilliation, temporal aliasing). Experiment with: 1) Designing textures with this in mind. 2) Experiment with the 3DS.set Texture-Sharpness parameter. 3) Experiment with filter types (mip-map / summed-area) & weights (blur). 4) Experiment with the 3DS.set Pixel-Size parameter (you can exceed 1.5). Also, experiment with the Filter-Kernel parameter (Bartlett's sharper). 5) Experiment with Scene & Object Motion Blur parameters. 6) Frame your shots to avoid any potentially difficult areas, if possible. 7) Take caution with lighting to avoid potential aliasing problems (such as some back-lighting cases). 8) Especially make sure the gamma-correction is "right" for the output medium (this can wreck 'ideal' antialiasing quality). Also take care in choosing/correcting colors for video. 9) Field-render whenever possible in most cases. 10) Find the ideal trade-off parameters using all of the above…..experiment. Every scene is different. As far as *_maintaining_* image clarity & avoiding artefacting through the recording processes down to the final distribution copies…..it's a matter of: 1) Using high-quality equipment throughout the master/dub chain. 2) Keeping the signal in the digital domain as long as possible. 3) Maintaining proper signal levels, etc.. 4) Using high-quality tape. For stills, it's a different story. Experiment with the applicable parameters above, without the necessity of worrying about the motion artefacts. If the image is at a high enough resolution, you might even turn antialiasing & map filtering off….or way down. That's about all I can think of to tell ya'.