well, i am rendering out images....i will put them together afterwards....not really for compositing...but that is just the way i like to render. I playblasted the scene and it works fine. I just tried one of my other sub-projects under the big one that is giving me the problems and they seem to work fine. It is just this one that seems to render only the first frame on batch and the rest just go without the effects. I tried importing the scene into a new scene and when I tried to batch render it, the batch render hung.

Whatcha think?