I don't believe it - a function I used all the time in Poser 5 isn't available in Poser 6. You use to be able to import an AVI movie into the background and scrub the timeline. In real time you could view the movie as you scrubbed, now you can't. This is a fundamental function - if you place reference material behind your character you need to have your reference update as you scrub the timeline. If e-Frontier reads this please fix this as this is such a basic necessity.

Try a click to the right of it. Looks like you need to kick start it into action first.

I also use avi with P6,But what is Scrub? I also do small animation so I'm just wondering if this scrub thing is useful...Psst don't tell anyone I ask you about Scrub...LOL..

Sorry PhilC - not sure what you mean. In Poser 5 if you were in the graph editor you could grab the green play head bar (cursor would change to an arrow pointing right & left). You could then move (scrub) the green bar to the right or left and as long as your AVI was compressed you could watch the AVI movie play. So you could scrub back and forward to get a sense of timing. Poser 6 only updates the AVI movie when you stop at a frame and release the left mouse button - this is completely useless.

Poser 6 only updates the AVI movie when you stop at a frame and release the left mouse button .... Try the left- and right-arrow keys on your keyboard.

Hi Little Dragon the arrow keys work, but not in any way that is useful to me. Pressing the left and right arrow keys will make you plod painfully slow through the AVI. Also due to keyboard caching you will over shoot the place you wanted to stop. Bring back the way it worked in Poser 5, you could move (scrub) back and forward in the graph editor at varying speeds and you could stop at precisely the frame you wanted.

Hi Dr Geep, thanks for the graphic - I really hope this is fix by E-Frontier as it's such a fundamental function. To be frank I can't use Poser 6 until it's fixed - I need to have control over my reference material in the background (I thought that the recent service pack would have fixed it, but it doesn't).

eecir, Write to techsupport@curiouslabs.com and link to this thread. Tell them what you need and why you need it. Sometimes quirks get fixed, and people who rely upon that quirk to work have to find another way to accomplish the same end. Carolly