just as a sample ... and no big criticisms please! ... to show the possible potential of this process ... i made a 2.5 minute minitab demo ... opened the infamous pulse data set ... made a plot of height and weight ... etc. ... as a movie in avi format ... used the camtasia screencorder i downloaded and installed ... if you want to look at this movie as a sample ... you will need to visit http://www.techsmith.com/products/camtasia/examplevideos.asp download either the camtasia software (free for 30 days ... sorry, only for pcs) ... or the codecs that will allow your windows media player to play the movie ... then you could try the sample movie at http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/introstat/ click on mtbdemo.avi ... the file amazingly is less than 500 kb ... with no audio ... if any of you try this and have success ... let me know 2 1/2 minutes is a longgggggggggg video ... and you could do alot if you carefully plan it ... and with the http://www.techsmith.com ... dubit download ... you could add audio to this video file ... dub(it) over it ... but, it will increase the file size quite a bit ... i think actually that video only would work in many demo cases ... since you could make the movie longer ... but go more slowly ... visuals might be sufficient ... the small file size seems to be a real plus ... even with modems, could download quickly Dennis Roberts, EdPsy, Penn State University 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park PA 16802 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], AC 814-863-2401, FAX 814-863-1002 WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm FRAMES: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drframe.htm =========================================================================== This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===========================================================================