Hello all and thanks for the advice. When I exported my 11 minute film to QT at highest settings the end result was still pretty awful. In the end I used DIVX which produced a fairly large file ( but still small enough to fit on a CD ) and the quality was much, much better. As the client will be transferring the file from CD to run directly from his hard drive I thought this was the best way to go. I'm still a little disappointed that I couldn't get QT to produce a better end product, even after several attempts each with different settings. DIVX, for me at least, appears to be far superior to QT. Am I wrong ? I'm really very new to this! Lee