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Stuart: You need to contact Greg Pyros and get a product called NDUMP.ixp. It runs in video post and will, through a batch file, take the rendered tga's as they come in from the slaves and move them in order (and this is the secret) to the PAR. Then, at your option the tga's can be deleted from the dos directory as part of the function of the batch file. The IXP and a sample batch file are what the product consists of. Also, in order to work the PAR must be resident on your machine that started the rendering and is running VP. ie. it cannot be resident on a dedicated server. There is a product that Greg has that is supposed to work on servers but I haven't tested it. It is a dos version of NDUMP. I don't use a dedicated server. This is how you must do it but be forewarned that NDUMP will only move tga's from the workstation with 3DS running to the PAR. If you need to render where you use rotoscoped files for animated maps from the PAR then it won't work. You will have to move the maps ani's to the dos drive as sequential tga's to work with them while using a network. For the past 3 months I've been working with lots of this kind of stuff so my network rendering has been slowed to a single mackine for awhile. I could sure use a bidirectional NDUMP but I've been told by Greg that this is too difficult a task to do.