Add shadow on the ground and character and remove shadow behind - it will be looks much better IMHO

VirtualDub filter

You can do it already. Make several files-templates with parameters, what you often use, and open-resave. And what mean few seconds in comparision with hard and time-exspensive animation work.

May be try to turn off scale compensation for that layer

http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP) - filters, recompressing, resizing, respeeding simple cut-paste edition, assembling several files, adding audio and so on...

http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime (.mov .qt) files. This way there is no need to install the offical QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR. The ...

And I cant load May be proxy?....