changed the default I didn't look, but I'm not surprised. I think what I'll do is change Poser's default to 24fps rather than use their oddball 30fps in Carrara. Slightly OT: My animation worked just find, except that when it was done, neither QT nor DivX could run it. Both brandnew installs I added last week to read the Betty Boop mp4s. I finally managed to run it on another machine that has WMP on it, and I'll move WMP to the production machine this weekend. The AVI was 8 megs, by the way. I'm very confused about what ought to be some pretty simple things. 1. My new W2K machine apparently does not have a DVD Codec to go with the DVD player. Say what? So I need to purchase a piece of software. Yippee. But when I look at Power DVD and WinDVD, I can't tell what I'm getting. If I buy a DVD "Creator" do I get a "DVD Player," or do I have to buy BOTH? Any recommendations? I don't mind paying the extra for a DVD creator, if I am also getting the player and codec. If I'm not, it's just good money after bad. 2. I have an MP4 of Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle which I want to recreate as a Poser animation, but the first step is capturing enough keyframes to allow me to see the stills. If I want to pull frames from an MP4, can I do that? If so, with what? Are there actually "frames" in an MP4, or is it a continuous bitstream? What I have appears to be a lossy datastream rather than a set of frames, but I have no way of telling, really. My only video software right now is an old copy of Corel Lumiere which I'm sure predates MP4, possibly predates MPEG entirely. I don't care enough to invest in a $300+ video tool. 3. Those of you who are doing animation, what would you recommend as the best settings for output? With Poser, I stuck with AVI and did still frames once just try it out. I like the idea of creating frames rather than an AVI, but I kind of doubt if my GIF animator (PSP's) is up to assembling 95 100K frames, and I don't think it will do streamning output (like an AVI). Any advise would be welcome. Cheers, M