Using Poser 5 it is possible to apply an AVI file as a 2D texture in the Materials room. When I do this I can render a still image and see the first frame of the AVI file applied to my object, but when I render a Movie with multiple frames the animating texture does not animate. How is this supposed to work?

Are you actually rendering the movie, or merely outputing the display mode? Video textures only show up when rendered. Animation menu --> Make Movie --> Quality --> Current Render Settings Poser should automatically increment the frames of the video texture to be in sync with the rendered movie. Make certain the framerates match.

Yes, I've tried rendering the movie as an AVI file. The texture remained immobile. Is there something about the CODEC used in the AVI file that is signiicant?

OoooH! OoooH! I think I know! Make sure your AVI file is saved at the speed of the animation in Poser ( normally 30 frames per second). If it's saved at say, 1 frame per second, then the first frame of your AVI texture will appear in frames 1 - 30, the second in frames 30 - 60, etc. (That's assuming Poser is set to 30 fps).

Am in Australia using PAL, so frame rate is 25 fps. This is the setting both within Poser and the AVI. Resoluiton is also the same - 720 x 576, DV quality. Any other ideas??

I doubt it will make a difference, but I would use uncompressed video for both the texture and the final movie. It might be too hard for Poser to decode and then re-encode a texture movie.

Will try with uncompressed - at least for the texture. But that can make for a pretty big video file. I just wish Poser could compress using the DV CODEC on the system.It doesn't seem to recognise it.