Quote - ok so this is of great interest to me- and again thank you all for the advise. i do want to try this technique out however i am not 100 percent sure how to go about it.

as far as i am understanding- one creates an animated "scene" of x amount of frames, then render each frame individually? or is there a way to tell poser render this clip in pngs? that is where i am a bit confused - all the other stuff... well is completely understandable.

 i luckily have never had poser crash during an animation render. but then again i render in various settings and drag the raw footage to premiere or ae, clip and tweak. however this png thing seems like it could great some interesting editing possiblites.

thanx again

 

Heh.

It isn't really made clear, but it is easy.

Click on 'make movie'

click the format option and select 'image files' 

Make any other render option selections you want.

Hit the 'Make Movie' button at the bottom of the panel.

This brings up an OS native save screen: so you choose where the frames go, you name the what the frames will be, and then select what file type you want. If you choose a compression capable format like jpg, then you get another window that lets you set the compression ratio. (Set it to 100 and you should be getting uncompressed frames). Hit Ok and the render starts. A bit kludgy, but that's how it works.

Poser steps through the scene as set up for animation and renders each frame; if you choose a movie format it then passes that frame to a temp folder and compresses and strings them together with a codec at the end. The .tmp files aren't really useable for anything else. If you choose the frames option, then the rendered frame is simply saved as an image file before Poser advances the frame counter and renders the next frame sequence. All you are doing is choosing between acumulating temp files to be compressed, or saving them out as fixed format image files.

 

The final output will look like this: image name 00000.extension, image name 00001.extension, etc. Poser always starts with 0000, not 0001. So to get the whole sequence, you start with 0000 (But as another example, say you are running cloth sims, and the setup draping ran into the first few frames of your sequence. You have the choice of including them in the editor and removing them after you have digital footage, or stepping through the file and starting with the first settled frame. But be aware that the cheaper and simpler video editors might not like it; they are hard-coded to accept only a 0000.ext file as the valid beginning of a video frame set).