Ok this maybe something simple that I am missing, but how do I render a movie properly? So that it looks like a fully rendered thing rather than what ever basic settings I have in Poser. Every time I render it comes out very basic rather than looking great. I know it will take ages to render, but I can wait if I can just get it to work. Please help me. Thank you to everyone in advance.

To get more realistic character in P5 - I use more realistic texture and bump maps (since we all got pores) and blue based lighting (goes better with skin tones) then set my render options to production - firefly - raytracing on - cast shadows on - pixel samples 2 - bucket size 16 - raytrace 6 - 8 (dependent on what else is in scene) - post filter size 1 - filter type gaussian. Have not fiddled with 3d motion blur or depth of field yet but hope to soon. Make sure that the codecs you are using is uptodate and keep compression to a minimum. Main thing is the lighting and the texture/bump to me. The pdf help (page 343) is really good on explaining what all these things do. Will be interesting to find out what others do.... as I played with this for over a month before getting happy results.

Thank you, but I don't think I am even that far. When I "Create Movie", it creates the movie without the lighting, textures, etc. I can render still images and they look great, but I can't seem to do the same with a movie. The other thing I was gonna ask, do you use the raytrace shadows on lights or just the normal settings??

I use the defaults as the blue based lighting (255 blue 0 everything else) seems to work well. What r your settings for Make Movie? when the dialog opens you would have avi selected and under that you should have Current Render Settings - sounds like you have Current Display Settings.

Thank you, I knew it would be something very simple. That's where I am going wrong. Now I can start it off when I leave for work at 6:45 in the morning and hopefully the animation may be finished at 6 when I get home!!

good deal - dont forget that extra cup of java!

Here's a Tip: Render to individual images then use a video editor (which you should be using with Poser anyway.) to stitch it back together into a video. The advantages to doing it this way are: That you can do touch ups or special effects in a paint program, and more importantly if your animation craps out on you you can just start where it left off rather than having to re render the whole thing.