Well, Vue 5 Infinite is not "a few" bucks - I plunked down $599. It IS a very nice piece of software - that little movie rendered in 15 minutes! You can check out Vue 5 at www.e-onsoftware.com. There are different versions, Vue 5 Easel is the cheapest, Vue 5 Infinite the most expensive (and feature-rich). I usually set up a scene in Poser and render it in Vue. Poser animations import very well in Vue, and the Vue render engine is better at handling large complex scenes (but Poser is definitely better at handling closeups). What version of Poser do you have? To be able to use a movie as a background you absolutely NEED Poser 5 or 6. You might want those moving clouds without the water, hill and tree, and you also might want it at a higher resolution and/or duration. Just let me know what resolution you're going to render your animation at, what frame rate, and what total number of frames, and I'll render you a cloud movie that matches. I'll also use another codec - Microsoft MPEG4 - to get rid of that dratted DivX logo. And I'll render at a better quality, this was the "preview" level. You do not have to purchase anything. You can put the movie as a texture on anything that has an UV map. Background, cube, sphere, square, figures, props, whatever. The cloud movie seems to be suited best for a background movie, though. But if you want to make this kind of movies yourself you'll have to purchase Vue. I've tested "movie" textures two years ago, I put a movie on the screen part of a TV prop. Worked very nice.

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