Yes, indeed there is the difference between those plug-ins which have their own user interface versus those that try and work inside the software packages ‘fx panel’, and that can really throw a plug-in functionality. However, i was also wondering (and i’m not sure if this is what you meant walter), does FCP, or AE have any influence in the way the plug-in’s effects are rendered on a piece of footage – assuming that we are rendering out to the same format, uncompressed avi or whatever in both FCP and AE?