fuaho, I never said "it doesn't work". I gave what information I knew to give in hopes that someone could point me in the right direction. I did say at the outset that I was new to the whole Poser animation thing. I apologize if I wasn't technical enough for you.

With that said, I'd like to thank you all for the help. You've given me things to think about and try that I hadn't thought of before. I still get only a blank screen when I render an AVI with firefly (using several different codecs as well as with no compression at all) but I have had success with rendering individual images and putting them together in a separate animation program so I guess a blank AVI doesn't really matter.

Thanks again to you all. You've help me solve my problem at least well enough to dive a bit deeper into Poser animation.