well heck, I finally remember what the project was, and my folly at the render time. I was an idiot, and I rendered my movie using constant quant-2, which (using bitrate viewer) I discovered spikes up to 13080 in the video stream alone! So, thank you all for your help, and curse my stupidity from the past! (All your help, however, will come in handy in the future) Thanks all, again! bye