There are a lot of people who complain about Poser and animation and how hard it is.  It really depends on what you are trying to do and how much you wish to do by hand.  Pumeco points out a video done in Iclone at 1 hour 29 minutes.  watched the first couple and there is really nothing there to make it more then average.  They took a lot of stock motions and applied them over and over.  You can do the same thing with Poser and BVH files.  My son took a Movie making class and only using Poser made 5 films during the course of the16 weeks.  A ~4.5 minute music Video a 30 - 60 - 90 second commerical and a 5 minute final project. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECglepATIg&feature=youtu.be

attached is a link to the final project.  Most of the motions were from the Mellon Carinega(sp) BVH project, via trubones website.  Some of the walk cycels in the commericals were done using the built in Poser walk designer and are not bad.

 

It really depends on how much effort you want to invest to get results.  Please remember the attached video was made by a student take 4 different classes and not a lot of effort was made to fine tune any of it.

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13