Well, I know where in ESB the clipping and crushing bug me the most - in the first Imperial fleet shots and in the Falcon's escape from Hoth. The loss of detail in those is so atrocious that it distracts me every time. Would there be any point in running those sequences, or those and and a handful of others through your custom scripts and plugs, Snicker? Would certainly cut down on the render time if the process can be targeted where it really needs it. Encode lossless and Harmy should be able to just drop those shots into his timeline. As understood it, Snicker, these are on your work machines, no? Can you tie up render time if that's the case?