Hello everybody: Cool place is this indeed! I have been using Poser3 for some time now and I'm looking for a simple (read: cheap :)) way of sending the animations I have made in Poser to a VCR recorder. I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance... Faustus

If your graphics card has a tv-out, you can hook it up directly to your VCR. This isn't really my area of expertise, so I'm not sure if there are other ways. You might try the Poser Animators Forum, (click the Forums link to the right). Yeah, this is a VERY cool place, welcome aboard! Coldrake

I bought a scan converter, This basically plugs into where your monitor normally goes, it takes the signal, converts it to a usable VCR signal, and you can use the video-in line on the vcr to record. This won't do sound, but you can just plug a cord from the line-out to the video line-in to do that. I live in australia, so my choices on the converters was very limited. I got the cheapest I could find ($200 australian - I think that's about $150 US) and the quality is perfect for me. I wouldn't want to broadcast it, but for home vcr it's as good as any video tape. I believe you also have lower-quality television in america, so that should be even less of a problem for you. I got my scan converted from AITECH (www.aitech.com) - and the only complaint I have is that there isn't an easy bypass-on/off switch for it, so if I don't want it to be powered and working I have to manually unplug it. But for cheap hardware, that's something I can live with The other option is to get a video card that can output to vcr. The TNT2 card came recommended to me, but not having used that I can't comment, sorry. Hope I've been of some sort of help SewerRat

I BEG your pardon!....LOWER Quality television in the USA!? (riffles through TV Guide) Oh.....jeez....youre right.....sorry..... Scarab<-switching to "Lake Woebegone" on NPR

Here's an old but fairly lengthy thread on the topic: "Outputting to video" by SewerRat on 08/23 08:31 http://www.poserforum.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=27232 Just looked at the date, guess it's not that old.

I'm gonna bite my tounge on the NTSC v. PAL comment.

I currently use an Averkey3+. It's about 6'x7', and it comes with a remote! This allows me to output up to 1024x768 @ 16.7mil color in overscan mode, Zoom x2, screen freeze, reposition video on screen, 3 filter levels and brightness control. It is composite, s-video and rgb output compatable. The output res quality differs slightly for the mac (I use a Gateway 450gl Pc ~Maxed~). This kind of toy lets you play quake on a big screen tv as well as save your work to a VCR. ($150.00) It also doesn't require filter, buffer, or driver software. Now, The best possible solution is to get a FireWire I/O card for your machine which runs about $100.00 but that's only the begining! you gotta have a digital V-camera to get input and if your not running a high priced VCR on output your going to lose alot on this kind of equipment. but you could look into the Iomega buzz, multimedia I/O device,all around input, it requires you install a card, it takes (I think) 20meg for software and oodles of space for mpeg storage ($199.00)

Hi! Thank you all for your suggestions... I think my video card has a tv/out(doh!)plug, but Ive never even thought about that, anyway, Im going to give it a try and let you know what happened... About the lower quality T.V. in America, I live in Mexico, so, I dont know about that...(^-^). Thanks again everyone, see you... Faustus.

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