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Here's a guess (don't have the time to test it out). When you create your animation by outputting separate 24-bit TGA images, each image has a different random dithering, whereas in flic output the dithering is controlled for the flic in such a way that you don't get "dither-crawl" during playback. As a result, the deltas for a flic generated directly from 3DS are much smaller than those in a flic that's been converted from a series of TGA's. In the converted flic, because of the dithering, probably every pixel changes in every frame — resulting in a gigantic flic. – Jack