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I'm using poser pro and recently realized that the animation rendering at poser takes so long time beyond my patience. 120 frames about 3 hours.. So I'm looking for 3rd software that I can import the ani pz3 file from poser and then render at the faster speed with better quality of course. Any recommendation would be pretty appreciated. Thanks!

120 frames in 3 hours is pretty fast. You can buy whatever you like, but I doubt you will get much better then that for the price you're going to pay. Especially not when you desire better quality and yet faster rendering speed. The 2 don't match..... more quality is more time. I've seen Vue recommended, but Vue isn't really faster then Poser when it comes to rendering poser imported scenes, often it's slower.

If you're desperate to spent money I would suggest Poser 8 or waiting for Poser Pro 2010. Poser 8 renders a lot faster then Poser Pro and I dare to state even a lot faster then Vue or Carrara do, when it comes to rendering poser content. Perhaps not as fast as Cinema4D, but that one has a much different price tag. For that kind of money I would rather buy a faster computer, which will give me much more rendering speed on Poser then Cinema4D does.

Quality is relative. Poser 8 is able to do a much higher rendering quality then Poser Pro can, in much less time. Vue may give you a better rendering quality, but that comes with a cost..... loss of speed. Carrara will not out do Poser in quality anymore.

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Oh how I wish....

P8 is, and has been for the last day or so, rendering a frame every 42 mins, I look forward to seeing a full minute of animation sometime next week. Now if I could just find that spare $4,000 I'd buy Studio max and have it done yesterday, or maybe save up for a neural implant and bypass all the fiddling about with software and just print my imagination straight to disc

Sounds like your computer is a problem. For me to get a rendering time of 42 minutes on my Core2Duo I will be rendering very complex scenes with larger render sizes, like over 1500x1500. With animations I don't think you're using larger render size and probably not even very complex scenes, so 42 minutes per scene sounds way too long.

Buying Studio Max will most likely not solve anything for you, a new computer may be a much better solution and a lot less pricey.

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