[BruceJ]

My method has seemed to work ok - using max video post for the final quicktime output.

Also, I found out that by rendering different scenes as targa file sequences and bringing these into video post, the video post conversion to quicktime only takes about 5 minutes.

So if anything needs to change, just render the new frames needed and run through the video post again.

I also found that a free image viewer utility called Irfanview can rename files as a batch process. Very helpful when I'm replacing frames in the middle of the sequence.

When rendering a scene in Max as a file sequence, it seems to name each file with the frame number. That's fine if your whole animation is one scene, but does anyone know how to give it a starting frame such as Anim0078.tga and have it continue rendering more frames as Anim0079.tga, Anim0080.tga, etc?

If so, it would save the step of using Irfanview to rename the files.