Wolf - Thanks for the link - makes it much easier. :)
            As for the smoke, that's what I was thinking - it's a little choppy, maybe lengthening the frames or something. This is my first foray into combining CG against a non-CG background so I'm tooling around a bit.

I have another anim I will put up soon, another quick test but it's interior with the BG footage being shot with a pretty crappy camcorder (no HD) - and no matchmoving applied.

Thanks LatexLuv, like that name! :)

Flibbits, I just launch Carrara, go to File > Import and chose either the Transposer (or the Native Importer but for animations I like the Transposer) - as long as you have CP pointing to your Poser exe it should work fine, I've never had any problems (I'm using CP6) hope this helps.