Quote - Who is actually animating with Poser 7?  And better yet, who is getting great results from using animated layers?  I've experimented, but haven't got the hang of it yet.

So, if you've got something that's working for you, post it here if you please.

 

I am new to Poser, only been using it for 6 months and before that I was using Iclone for about a year and that is the extent of my 3D experience. Iclone was a piece of cake compare to Poser. Every thing seems 10 times harder but the superior output is worth it. I have found if I use a BVH file or any animation preset included with Poser that I can, for example, make an arm do something else in a second layer which will override the preset. The trouble is normally animate by hand and I almost never use BVH files, so I don’t have much use for the layer feature, but I am glad it’s there. Sometimes I make a trial animation in the second layer and then I can easily delete it if I am not satisfied. Obviously you can’t delete the base layer.
My only use for poser is animation (I have never made a still except as a test) and I haven’t found any likeminded Poser users. I think people interested in animation exclusively, use other software. 
Anyway below is a link to the last Poser movie I made. It’s only my second one and a remake of the first one, so you can see I haven’t had much experience. I am posting it here because I did use the layer feature (sometimes) and it seemed like an appropriate answer to hindsitestudios good question.  What ya think?
http://stevedraun.org/duke/duke_fs.htm