What you want to do is give CMpeg the correct parameter.

cmpeg frame%03d.tga animated.mpg

The %03d tells it to get frame000 to frame999 for example.  %02d  is for
double digits, %01d for single (0 to 9).  The zero is telling it to look for
zero buffered numbers as in 00 to 99 where the first digit starts out as 0.

I use a batch file myself, except simply for the running of CMpeg.  So I
only have to type:

  mpg frame%02 animated

at a DOS prompt to compile the "frame00.tga" to "frame99.tga" into a mpeg
called "animate".  The mpg.bat file contains a line saying:

 cmpeg %1d.tga %2.mpg

with a cd command before that to go to where I have CMpeg, since I don't add
everything to my PATH.  I never could get the "%0" to go inside the batch
file itself otherwise it would be even simpler.

Bob

"Matt Giwer" <jul### [at] ijnet> wrote in message
news:3855A70C.CD446A79@ij.net...
>     If you want 10 animation images POV spits them out
> in NAME00 throught NAME10. For 100 they come out
> NAME000 through NAME100.
>
>     All fine but CMPEG wants them NAME0 to NAME10 to
> NAME99 ending at NAME100.
>
>     OK, I created simple batch files to convert the
> names.
>
>     But I am wondering if there is either a way to get
> POV to output what CMPEG wants or to make CMPEG eat the
> POV output.
>

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