When I render in Poser4 what I use is a key frame at 15 and it rendered slightly faster not slower than when I used a keyframe at 30. To get a minute you need 60 frames total. 30 is half a minute, not really long enough to even see the animation. If you stick to 30 frames while adding a larger avi background you may need to add more keyframes at 15 to make it move faster in the animation? Depending on the size of the file he ends up with. So, in a minute what I did was add 2 keyframes instead of 1. 30 frames then a key frame then 30 more. Am I close? For each 30 add 1 keyframe right??? If he's adding a larger avi file to the background then he would have to go higher or lower on his keyframes? I tend to go lower on mine. I like my animations to render faster than the 30 default. 15 keyframe goes faster on my machine than 30. a bit faster by a second not much. I just keep playing around with the settings, depending how fast or slow I'd like it to go. The more frames, the more time it takes to render the animation. Took me an hour once to render a very large animation on my laptop until I learned to cutdown on the frames.

Message edited on: 01/24/2005 11:59