Thanks mate, funny thing is I use VirtualDub myself was going to add it as a addendum at the end of this tutorial, just never got round to mentioning it.

Cheers for that.
Dave

Maya Batch Rendering Tutorial - SimplyMaya.com on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/21264940)

Quick tutorial on basic batch rendering in Maya 2011, will work just fine in other versions of Maya though.
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