well, it's the way the profi's work, and the way network rendering works for animations.

The basic idea is that when something crashes or a render setting works out the wrong way, only a very limited amount of frames has to be re-rendered. Plus the post-work options indeed.

next to that, a series of frame-images takes as much diskspace as an uncompressed avi, or even less (eg compressed tiff, just test upfront your whole workflow so you're sure poser is producing the format that can be processed further indeed).

note that especially when you're on Poser Pro you can save various frame-images at once, like masks and z-depth and so on. These too can be combined into a video-stream, and used for postwork as well.

success and have fun!

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