Wow thanks Future Fantasy Design your comments mean a lot...I am not that far off a newbie I have only been using Vue for 3 or 4 months and poser for about 8 months- still have not learned how to control the damn camera properly yet and no idea of how to write a script! (notice how most scenes have basic camera movements).

Using 1 computer to render an i7 920 processor 6 gig ram . Recently I open two instances of Vue and render a scene from each it seems to work out more efficient this way cutting down the overall render time. If you need any hints just ask.... I have just learned how to change materials throughout an animation it was incredably easy but I had overlooked it - it gives me an idea for a future animation ;-) .