Hello is there a way in Vue to render just like in poser with a transparent background, no land no water, no sky just an image perhaps with a shadow that I can place over video or photos... Using a poser import?

What Vue version?

7.5..... I tried Silverblades tutorial, but the render had a black background... think it may have been for an earlier version of Vue

Infinite therefore. I think you should try simply to save as png or tif with clicked on transparency option. Then the background (sky) is gone. Land or water you can switch off for rendering if you do not want it - automatically this is always rendered with the scene.

Sorry it is Xstream...   I always render as a PNG I have not noticed a transparency option.... not in front of Vue atm but I take it is in render settings? 

Before when trying I just clicked land, water etc to remove them from scene and background was black.

The options are in the save image dialog. Good to check those sometimes! :D

...I think I know where you mean there are options to save different passes.. ..

Nope - not in the rendering dialog. Just when you save the image, there it is.

Looks like I prob do need to pay more attention! Thanks for your help ! Athough I havn't put it into practise I am sure it is there

Try Gill Brooks site she has a tut for rendering a transparent background that I have used many times.

www.digitaldesktops.biz/

On the left hand site of her web page under help go down to tutorials>Vue>Render Transparent BG. Give that a go and see if it works out for you.

Thanks I will let you know if this works

Gill brooks guide works fine.... only problem is when I render an animation imported from poser 8 the image does not move it just repeats frame 1's positions on every frame ;-(