Quote - > Quote - The things that really bug me about people saying render single frames out is this: First you have to learn yet another program and then do the extra work to do not only build the animation in that program but you also have extra work to sync up any audio you used. Unless you're making a movie for some major feature film project, which would mean using Poser is counter productive to begin with, you're better off rendering to your animation file in Poser with your audio track already loaded. That's this animators opinion.

The definitive determinant of whether you render to single frames or not, is can you reliably render the whole animation without Poser crashing.
Once you get close to the answer No, then you really don't have much choice about using other software, as splitting up an animation into chunks will require assembling them later.

See, now there's your assumption that's wrong. Poser doesn't crash on long animations for everyone! It certainly hasn't for me. It also depends on how you define long animations. If your talking long panoramic shots of outdoor scenery, I use Bryce for that. I use Poser for dialog or figure scenes only in animation. Also, I'm not making major motion pictures. I've rendered animations up to 3000 frames without a crash.

My bigest gripe is that whenever animation is brought up, rendering out images is always the first reccommendation when it's not always the best choice for the project. Let the new users know their options and don't write off a perfectly viable method just because it's not your preferred method.