IF I WANT TO CREATE AN ANIMATION WITH FIGURES AND COMBINE THEM WITH A VIDEO BACKGROUND IN ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS, DOES THE BROWN BACKGROUND THAT IS DEFAULT IN POSER 6 TURN TRANSPARENT? OR DO I NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO THE SETTINGS SO I CAN JUST EXPORT THE ANIMATED FIGURES??? MANY THANKS!!!!!

Save your files as .png files. They have no background when opened in a graphic program.

Mmm what is the transp. background jused for? if you cannot see it? And please STOP SHOUTING WHIT THOSE CAPS "big letters".... Its just not fine reading... Chris

Some video codecs support Poser's alpha channel. I'd recommend Huffyuv or Lagarith, but I'm not certain that After Effects can read them properly.

Alternatively, you could import the video background into Poser and render your figures on top of it.

And please STOP SHOUTING WHIT THOSE CAPS "big letters"....

We'll simply have to outshout him, BARTWORX ....

Philip, if you have Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, you can just use the background eraser tool to erase the background from your poser render and that will automatically give it a transparent background. Bartworx, the transparent background is used, among other things, in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, to paste an object into an existing picture. You "erase" the background from , for example, a photograph of an elephant, then paste it, as a trasnsparent layer, into a photograph of a shopping mall, and the result is a photograph of an elephant at the mall.