In Poser 7 (remember the good ole days of 7?),
I've found that sometimes a render which would hang,
will usually work if I do the make movie out put to Image thing. 

It's still the Firefly engine, first guess is the technology is a tad different.  Something like rendering to disk.  It's still rendering shadows and smoothing, so it must still be reading the render settings, even though the make movie tab is a bit spare with options.

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