(I had captured the footage as DV) Your suggestion to render the whole timeline was a Gem!!! The .avi that I had captured wasn’t getting the green render line on the time line when I rendered it so, in order for the whole time line to be rendered, I created a ‘titler’ with absolutely nothing in it and placed in video track 4 above eveything else and stretched it out along the duration of the project. When I hit ‘render sequence’ it then was able to render the whole timeline. When I then exported it to tape, the imported .avi footage was no longer pixelated. Thank you so much for your help!!!!