Thanks, Moth3r. Yeah, that's one of the reasons I went with TAGA (would have preffered RLA or something that makes more reasonable file sizes, but there's not as much support for them in NLEs); the other being that I can just paint directly on each frame in Photoshop. Bitrate shouldn't be an issue; I'm encoding VBR with a max of 9800, and an average of 6000. Well, the other possible problem is that Vegas is using MainConcept for it's MPEG2 encoding, and while it's certainly common enough, it's hardly the best encoder around, but it hasn't acted like this before so I was thinking maybe it handled DV better than a still sequence. Maybe something that can do more than 2 pass-encoding, or maybe using CBR instead of VBR? ANy opinions?

A second question regarding the rip from Virtualdub to those who'd know...VDub has identified the video on the ANH official disc as being 23.976 fps, and played at that framerate it's fine in Vegas, but GSpot, MPeg Validator, and MpegPRoperties all say it's 29.97. What's with the discrepancy, and am I actually loosing 6 fps of extra data? Anyone had this happen?