I always use the RAM Player in 3ds max.

It's a fast way to put together your rendered frames and output it to a movie format or just preview with the ability to scrub in realtime. Load in your image sequence and hit the Save button, select the format, type the filename and setup the codec. It shouldn't take more than a few seconds for 100 frames.

There is another way to do it inside 3ds max, but it's a little more tricky and I haven't used it for ages, but I think it was a utility called IFL Manager (Image File List Manager) that creates a list of the frames to load into Video Post. In Video Post you add the IFL list as an Input Event and setup an Output Event and execute the queue. This could be useful if your animation is too large to load in RAM Player. n Video Post, you first start a new work space, or if you have any old sequences or what not, delete those. You go to the little icon for Add Image Input Event, and select the first file you need... at the bottom will be a little setting... sequence, make sure to click it on..., then you go to the Add Image Output Event and add a avi or whatever format event to output the movie. Then select the Output event you just created in the left pane, and Run... the little guy that's running. THat's about it, it automatically makes the IFL ... Image File List... and also produces the avi or whatever for you. When done, if it worked,

delete the events you added into video post if you want a clean slate the next time you use it.

In order for this to work effectively, make sure that the tga files you wnat to make into a movie are in their own spearate folder with no other files from other renderings. Video post will add all files it finds in the folder (of any given file type... tga in your case)to the image file list and add them to the movie. If you only want your 100 images in a movie, make a folder for them, and move the 100 into that folder before you browse with Video Post to add images.

I use Video Post for that.........

-Go to Rendering > Video Post -then click on Add Image Input Event (it has an icon of a line sortof like this |_> ) -click on the button marked Files and browse to your TGS files

-select the first TGA in the series of files [NOTE : Make sure the Sequence box has a check in it] , Then click OK -make sure your VP Start and VP End times match the number of TGA's you have (I.E. 100 images will make your VP Start/End times 0 and 99 respectively -Click the Image Output Event icon (3 to the right of Image input Event0 -Click Files and Name your video clip and choose the output to save it as (AVI,MOV etc...) -Click Save -It should then open the Codec setup screen so setup your codec and click OK now everything should be right in the Image Output Event Dialog box so just check it over and make sure then click OK -Now click the Execute Sequence button (looks like a pic of a Man running) and let it render your clip