The 3500 was a hypothetical number (although the largest none cut section would be about a minute so thats still a lot of frames).

As always it is a case of outputting the frames into folders for each scene then assemble in FCP (although playing around with the Lagarith codec seems to gives good results but is not compatible with macs as yet) .  I am pretty sure that trying to shoot a whole continious film in one cut using Poser would propably be tatamount to suicide.  A majority of the scenes are around 300-500 frames so its not quite as bad as I may have made out.

The main problem was that I needed to seemlessly cut the action from a couple of viewpoints, each around 30 seconds, I sorted it by rendering frames 01-750 from the main camera, then 751-1550 from  a second camera and putting it together in Final Cut.  While it was not really my preferred way to work around the problem it had the desired effect.

I agree that rendering huge animations in poser is a little mad, and one day I will finally get around to buying that plug-in that lets me render in max. (Although I must admit that Glow Worm does help a lot when it comes to rendering lots of files while I am out at work or asleep).

Anyway thanks for all your helps and maybe Poser will add a feature like this is a future release, I am sure it cannot be thaht hard and would be really useful.

G