Yeah, Hitfilm is impressing me on the tests I've been doing, enough that I'm springing for the chroma key and particle effects plugins. Just the fact it imports numbered frames instead of being limited to the video file formats like a lot of the so called 'movie editors' are is a godsend.

I'd agree with most of that on the Poser animation front. If there were some way to do it though, I'd keep the legacy if there were enough interest in past figures, and have a switching arrangement to keep the new system isolated. My approach to the figures is that they are actors to me. Content. It's what I can do with them in the pipeline that matters to me, not the experimental nature of most of them. And there are certainly enough open source systems to implement, one stage at a time, for a reinvention of the animation tools. But there does need to be consistency with the figures; that was what put V4 into such a commanding position.

Almost as important is maintaining the Poser-Vue interconnection. Which once I get the ol rendergarden upgraded to load the Cows onto, I'll be cranking out fly throughs with various figures and whatnot to get back in the swing of that end of the pipeline. Very little can compare to Vue when it comes to end stage rendering involving large outdoor environments