I tried rendering it as .wmv but it still is choppy and and at lower vid quality. the origional footage is full 1080p and it plays fine on my desktop. could it have anything to do with how i imported the footage in AE. It was a sequence i imported from PP, and when i imported into PP it was a AVCHD. should i have rendered it in PP before putting iy in AE? And FYI dynamic link doesnt work on trial version.