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Sorry to ask this question again but I never quite got there...
rather than rendering out an entire animation as an AVI which takes days, only to find out if I have a little glitch I have to re-render the whole thing all over again, I want to render frames and then piece them together later.

my problem is that the quality is not nearly as good when I piece the frames togehter afterwards.

I am using a program called 'Image to AVI' using the MPEG 4 compressor which I always use. the thing is if I use no compressor, the 'full frames (no compressor)' option, the final AVI file is huge, and if I use the MPEG I get the right size but I lose quality.

anyone rendering via frames vs the entire animation file and if so, what technique do you use so that when you piece them together you end up with the same same quality and file size as if you rendered out the avi file right in Lightwave?
Maybe it just isn't possible???

thanks in advance.


Paul