Quote - No you shouldn't if you render any sort of animations directly from Poser. The 64 Bit version doesn't support as many video codecs as the 32 bit version does. In 32 bit you can render to DivX directly, but not in 64 bit because DivX doesn't do 64 bit yet. A lot of video codecs only work in 32 bit still.

And before everyone jumps in and says it's best to render images and put them together in some other program, Yeah yeah, whatever. Some of us want to render to AVI directly from Poser so this information is pertinant  to those of us who do.

I would recommend NEVER render animations directly to avi, mov, etc in any program whatsoever. If for some reason the animation is stopped (tsunami, rats munching cables, tornado, darn kids, jealous wife, etc) you lose all that you had rendered of the animation till then.

This is easily remedied rendering to images. And there are tons of freeware proggies that can make movies from a sequence of images (for example, virtualdub).

That being said, if you have a 64bit OS, go for the 64bit version. It can use all your available memory.

But certainly, if for whatever reason you need/want to render directly to animation, the 32bit version has more codecs available. HOWEVER, I would render to a lossless codec, because if you don't give the correct codec settings, you waste precious render times over a lousy looking animation. Saving to a lossless codec avoids this, as you can experiment with compression levels and etc. later, without needing to re-render anything.

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