first off I just want to say thanks for the reply. I read the other topic in the "noob" section about rendering and I didnt see anyone say anything about alpha channels.

Its a bit of a shame they didnt give the option to output into Quicktime or give an option to output into a AVI that actually has non-stutter as well as alpha channeling.

so strange.

Does this mean I should get a Macintosh eventually or something? (hmm....)