Just added Carrara 5 and Carrara 3d Basics 2 to my cart in Daz (they're on sale, buying both comes out to $55) - I'm hoping it's similar to Poser so there's less of a learning curve.

Debating on if I should get those two or Carrara 5 Pro for $85... hmm... I wish I would've asked this question about two months ago. I'm just finishing up an 11 minute cg flick. Some of the scenes look nice, others leave me wanting a better renderer. (Poser has this  tendency of NOT rendering, saying I need more RAM... I have 4 gigs of RAM and a dual core 3.0 proc... I sometimes have to lose the texture filtering and drop down almost to "Draft" stats before it lets me render.. very frustrating)

Does Carrara export individual frames as image files?