tebop opened this issue on Jun 30, 2009 · 68 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 06 July 2009 at 10:19 AM
Hi All
( Violating my own promise regarding entering the OP's threads)
>>Diplomacy filter deactivated<<
This redundant Mac vs PC price debate nonsense completely IGNORES the very obvious
nature of the OP 's problem.
POOR WORKFLOW HABITS!!!.
(check his posting history)
I know,I know technically he did ask a hardware question.but as the only experienced animator in this thread (OP included),
I feel compelled to ask:
why is he loading several hi res DAZ millenium poser figures at a time if he is trying to animate them??.
Answer: he does not know any better and typically ignores any advice that requires LEARNING how to use the features of the programs he already owns.
For example the OP Might be told to use
Low res proxy stand-ins for animation like poser4 'Dork/possette" or similar and save the motions as animated PZ3 files to his library and apply this motion to this Fully dressed Generation3/4 Daz figures before rendering.
But this workflow would require prudent planning
and possibly require adjusting the applied animated poses using the poser graph editor.
....not gonna happen here. 
The OP has stated In many threads that he has Apple Final cut pro, which support Alpha Channels.
Poser will render single figures with alpha channels that can be composited in FCP to make "crowds".
But this workflow would require prudent planning
and possibly require learning how to use Final Cut pro for post video production as it was intended.
....not gonna happen here.
Except for rare exceptions like WETA Digital and its proprietary "massive" software, NO ONE( ILM, Pixar etc)
packs a scene with multiple hi res figure rigs to animate them all at once and even WETA uses very Low Res
Figures for it Crowd Simulations and alot of film grain
and motion blur in post production
Stewart& others may remember back when I was posting poser animations in 2001/2002 with platoons of marching soldiers rendered on a 266MHZ
first generation MAC G3 with 256 MEGS of RAM.!!
this was accomplished by using every trick and cheat
I could find and when some one was nice enough to teach me a trick to get around My Severe hardware
limitations ( at that time)
I actually made the effort to implement them.
the issue here is not a hardware problem it is a
"Hard Head" problem.
>>Diplomacy filter reactivated<<
Cheers