Wow - you guys are awesome on here! Thank you so much for your help. That is indeed the particular tree I was looking for. Cheers, Jason

Dont know why its not exporting properly, but as a workaround you could use screen capture to record your viewport as you play the animation through in sketchup. Something like this would do it: http://camstudio.org/

Thanks for the tips, all. I am just going to use Premier to do some post for this project, but this would be a neat feature to have in future versions! Cheers, Jason