Renderfarm? I'm just me and small potatoes......I've settled on a vertical 960 pixels which is twice the 480 that I will compress to in mpg.  The render for 10 seconds runs about 18 hours with 65% quality in the AA and min 4 max 16.   I just press render and then go away for a while.   The render at 1080 vertical takes a lot longer but doesn't look that much better when put on DVD.  Thanks for all of your comments.  I wil definitely render the space craft separately in Poser and composite to the scene in VUE when not needing a direct interact with the scene in VUE......

Windows 10 - Poser Pro 2012 - 64Bit - 24GB RAM - 4 x 3.40 GHZ processor