I made a 240 frames animation in poser, however the video formats I can export in are limited, I can export to images, flash and avi, the avi codex is either avi version 1, some intel encoding I can not read or uncompressed who work. But make large files, this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNXJO-jXOE is 230MB.

Anybody know of free / cheap and simple programs to convert uncompressed video or series of pictures to a decent format? It had been useful to reduce the frame rate a little here to make her walk slower without increasing size.

I would say install DivX or Xvid codecs (they can be found easily with a google search), And use www.virtualdub.org to process your raw avi into one of the compressed formats !

Thats about the best way !

In order to have more options for rendering AVI's in Poser Pro 2010, you'll need to run the 32 bit version. There are very few 64 bit video Codecs available at the moment that you can use. DivX doesn't have 64 bit codec's yet. Not Sure about XVid.

Ty, I downloaded divx, xvid and virtualdub who compressed my 900MB uncompressed file down to 50MB. My problem was that I had only downloaded videolan and no codexes

Thank for the tips about 64 bit, would probably need to run poser in 64 bit  so I save as uncompressed and convert later, might think about saving to images as it should be easier to redo part of a animation.  

Anyway, had to resize it to make youtube take it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlpivMK6JAU

is it a way to get youtube to loop a video, this is designed to run in a loop, the other option is to but the loop scene in many times after each other.

Unfortunately, no, I don't know of any way to make YouTube loop a video. Yours looks good though and I know Windows Media Player will loop it just fine.

Or save as sequenced image files and put them together in virtualdub and save to what ever codec you want.

Don't render in any video format.  Render as sequenced images, then use virtualdub to put them together as a video file.  It supports many codecs.

If the computer crashes in the middle of a video render you have to start at the beginning.

If it crashes in the middle of an image series render, you re-start after the last completed image.

Yes this is that I will do, as you say it will make it possible to continue after crash, can also make a simple script to copy and rename the files for repetitions.

Should also be possible to redo part of an animation with a problem.

OK so I said save instead of render. Thought that was obvious what I meant. LOL.

When I render I save as image files. LOL.

Quote - Don't render in any video format.  Render as sequenced images, then use virtualdub to put them together as a video file.  It supports many codecs.

If the computer crashes in the middle of a video render you have to start at the beginning.

If it crashes in the middle of an image series render, you re-start after the last completed image.

what if you have a lipsync audio file with the animation?

If you add the audio later, does the audio still sync with the sequenced images?

Thanks.