Here's my problem. I've made an AVI of Scenery in Bryce for a driving scene in Poser. The AVI imnport's to Poser just fine. It renders as a single image just fine, but when I try to make a movie in Poser the resulting AVI is dark & Grainy. Does anyone know the best Codec to use? I tried using DIvX 5.1 & MPEG-4. Both resulted in AVI's that are darker and grainier than a single frame image render from the same file.

I think the problem might be the double compression. (It's compressed when it comes out of Bryce, and then compressed again when you render it in poser.) If your computer can handle it, you might want to try full frames when you render in bryce, and then try it in poser. If you can't handle the full frames, try lowering the compression settings on the divx codec, or maybe brightening up the poser scene. When you import into poser, you're importing a background avi, right? You're not using the avi as a texture for a square? (poser 5 only)

Steve, I haven't come across this problem myself, but can't you set the colours brighter in Poser in the material room? And try to adjust some of the other settings, like ambient colour.

Ok, More details needed I guess. I Rendered the exterior scene AVI in Bryce USING Full Frame Compression, Imported that AVI To Poser as a background image in Pro Pack. Rendered that animation in Full Frame. then Opened the file in MGI VideoWave 4 and added the audio track. When it produced the final DivX & MPEG AVI things went dark. I then Imported the full frames from Bryce AND The Audio track (WAV) file into Poser and Rendered it straight to DivX. I'm going to try again using the basic Microsoft Video 1 Codec. I'm thinking it's some compression thing for sure even though I have the DivX and MPEG Codecs set for 100%. Heck! It might be just that adding the audio track that's doing it. As this animation is a 599 frame Poser animation each new render is taking 8 hours. I think I'm gonna have to start doing clip renders from the file til I find the right settings.

Doing the clip renders is a good idea. Try rendering one in poser using the full frame bryce render WITHOUT the audio track imbedded, and then add the audiotrack in after the render. and if video wave can hadle it, you might want to try converting the .wav file to .mp3. (download.com has converters. I'm not sure if they have any free ones, but there would at least be one you could try for free)