I am relieved to say, I have a clip with no flicker.

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Apparently, setting the shadow map to 3000 did the trick. However, because I got impetuous and frustrated and removed lights and moved my main, and that was too many variables to change, now I have to keep sampling, dialing back the size of the map, also, to find the optimal setting. But this is just the cinematographer performing test shots...a normal film requirement.

What also kicks in is the concept of scaling everything up and thus working with Poser5 on that basis permanently per suggestion by ynsaen. Who knows what prop, dynamic clothing, hair, etc. issues might spawn from that, but it might re-establish better render times. Whereas I had been getting a frame every 80-90 seconds at the original "30", this final render at "3000" required 200 seconds per frame. Scaling up might enable me to pull that back, plus it might avoid other quality issues in rendering that have yet to make their presence known!

Also, moochie's approach has merit. If indeed I decided to run the risks stated so well by Max, and stay with Poser because I am doggedly determined to see how far I can go with it, I will seriously consider that effort, by starting with the base model and adding on elements, test rendering as I go along. It will be combined with a trial of scaling up and with the size of the shadow map.

(by the way, I am already rendering out to individual frames and then constructing my final with QuickTimePro. Also, the flicker was there regardless of material room node settings...i detected it with Poser4 renders. And the flicker is in the individual frames. Also I rendered out directly to avi once or twice, still flicker.)

Thanks, contributors to this thread for helping me attack this issue. Not that I'm asking it to be at an end; assuming I am still in Poser, I will keep making trials over the next week and post results on this thread, so it becomes a resource for any other filmmaker performing a search in the Renderosity Poser forum.

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