hi people i had this same problem my batchrenderer did also not even finish one image it had for me to do with my NOD32 antivirus this batch converter seems to use some kind a network stuff when i reinstalled a new nod32 smart security and putted this one on asking for permission when software uses the network i alowed the batchrenderer when nod asked me what to do with it now it works fine for me else i found a program that i could run with my old nod32 version when the normal mayabatch did not work i uploaded the file for interested people www.ieoie.nl/Maya/PE3DMayaBatch.zip but in this i did not know how to config it to get nice good quality images out of it it works with code looks like MELcode which i do not understand, maybe one of you does, and is this for him/her the solution once i contacted the maker of this thing for help but he did not answer....... ieoie out all the best for the new years .......