Okay, so I’m a little fuzzy on what collapse does, but generally I use it to treat pre-comps as whole discreet element with all their effects and such flattened. In this comp I have multiple nested clips that use video from several sources. Then I output a movie and then import it into another project where I do a final conform and soundtrack. Its so odd. The base files look fine, but then I render through the render queue and it comes out fuzzy. Then if I just go to export and do the same thing, bam… no problems. Its very odd indeed.