Thank you for the well wishes It does do us a bit of good out here to hear that we are appriciated.

I only use 1 Pass unless I run into some other type of problem. I haven't tried 2 Pass with this one as that has never helped in the past with any other movie that I ran into with this problem.

I use Generic w/ MP3, frame rate is same as source (though I have tried setting it to a given number with the same result). I run a set bit rate of anything from 850 to 900 depending on how big the output file will be. Volume is 110% at 128bit.

My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9300 running Windows Vista Ultimate w/ latest patches, 1gig mem, nVidia graphics with 128 of it's own memory.

Are there any other spacific config settings I need to post?

I'll update and try the beta today I'll repost after I re-try Treasure Planet .