Hal - thanx 4 the info. I guess I gotta go back and re-render all my viddies now to correct this :( I thought I had stumbled upon something really cool - now it seems 2B just a program tweak! I hate it when that happens! Ahhh - HellWidIt! They look cool as they iz - I just leave 'em be. The Excellent program I use to convert the GIF images to AVI viddie is called VideoMach and you can get it here: http://www.gromada.com It is shareware, costs very little, but well worth it. It can handle all formats you need. The shareware version is fully functional. Check it out! To convert (compress) to WMV format (it is a MPEG-4 derivative) use the free MicroSoft Windows Media Encoder and you can fetch it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx Although I am using version 7 not 9. Stay Amazed! JoTz