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Hello Don, Thanks for the indepth reply. It's hard to keep up with all this new, fangled technology, and produce good quality animations (takes time, eh?) AND have a personal life. You've saved me a few hours by describing this. I think I'm going to have to get some data on each of the formats, just so I know where everything lies. So SVHS has a better horiz resolution than 3/4"? Interesting. Now, what does Y/C stand for. I take it it's a protocal for machines to take to each other, say in dub or edit modes? Must the two decks be exactly Y/C 688 or Y/C 629? And you say the VHS is Y/C 629 – how does this interface with the 3/4"? I'm glad you've said it about the DPS PAR. I guess the question is, at what level of compression does it become noticable on a NTSC screen? I wonder if one were to render at double the resolution (say 800×600) and then compress. But this is kinda beside the point. Who says I have to have every frame of my four minute short on disk. If I was recording single frame, I wouldn't have anything on disk. I think a shot by shot rendering routine would work. But in you HO, do you think the quality of the image will deteriate quicker on dubbing, if the original image was compressed and decompressed? Thanks Don James