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Paul, I thought I'd jump in here and give you my experience related to your original question of single framing vs. DCTV anim. Surprisingly good results are possible with DCTV. In fact, a Commodore rep told me they were going to integrate it into the CDTV for improving full motion video (this was at the INFOCOMM show in D.C. last week where CD-I was making a big splash). But on the subject, I have been using the Nucleus Personal SFC with great results with a FireCracker. I have also created the same anims with DCTV with good results. However, the problem mentioned earlier about delta times does tend to screw up the smoothness and timing of playback – critical for professional applications. Also, I need to output to betacamSP in component – I'm using an OMNIGEN 721 to transcode – and the component output is about as good as RGB vs. the soft NTSC look of DCTV. However, considering the huge storage overhead of 750K frames vs. 60K DCTV frames and the difference in investment, it is amazing what you can get with DCTV. I use the DCTV method for previewing the anim and showing clients, etc. and in many cases, it would be good enough. Anyway, thats MHO