Nicolas: Attached is a screencap of the Views palette glitch. It shows up after the slider loses focus. I really like your #3 and #4 suggestions for the rendering process (especially #3 as I'm not much of an animation guy, whcih probably explains why I'm a still photographer not a filmmaker!) BTW, here's my specs: Sony VAIO 2.4 GHz Pentium4 768 MB PC2100 RAM Window XP Home Edition (Version 5.1 - Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633, Service Pack 1) Onboard Intel 82845G Graphics Controller Jim -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: image/jpeg -- File: views_palette.JPG ====================================================== The Chaoscope mailing-list Archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org ======================================================