nope, DVCPRO HD, log and transferred from FCP. I make a new comp in AE 1280 X 720 sqaure pixels and that makes it display correctly. Wh ywould it work better on one machine than the other (especially when the other is a much more powerful computer? Surely it has something to do with the multi processing right? Am I not allocating enough memory per CPU? I’m giving 2 gig per core