Ok, cant post attachment. Here are the steps. create a blinn or whatever you wish attach movie texture node to the color channel in attribute editor for movie go pick the avi file turn on use frame extension below that in the frane extension click on the click through icon to the right of it this will open an expression editor type the following in at the bottom than hit create movie1.frameExtension=frame **movie1 = is the texture node name for the movie** as Mike mentioned you may have problem with mpg, mov. I will try and post my result