Basic, basic, basic. Is there some basic tut somewhere? I dont see anything on this site. The first animation I did was about 900 frames at 400x600 @ 170 dpi ( I said I was a beginner), and it played fine (Microsoft video and played in Media Player.) But that was the last one that has even attempted to play. Now all I get on new renders is some jerky motion in any of the three players I have. When I render at 400x600 @ 72 dpi @ one quarter, it plays ok but is soooo small. I would guess that I was naive about playing the larger size files, except that the first one played fine. What is good quality video rendered at? Is there a tut or book? When I buy an editor will it take care of all my problems? Someone please point me in the right direction! P4 1.5g/1g mem/win2k Thanks for your help Pinto

With a system like that, you should be able to handle a 400x600 video with no problem whatsoever.

My videos start at 320x240 and go up from there. 352x288 is roughly VHS or VideoCD quality; 720x576 would be DVD-quality. Ultimately, quality will depend upon your target audience.

I'd recommend a different codec than Microsoft Video; it's rather old, no longer supported, and has limitations. DivX and Indeo are superior.

Perhaps Poser is doing something unforseen during the compression process, which causes the finished video to stutter. You might try rendering to uncompressed video, then compressing it with a third-party utility like VirtualDub or TMPGEnc.

720x486 is the standard size for transfer to video. 640x480 can work too but it is not as good as 720x486. The requirements are much higher for Film transfer.

Thank you for the responses. I've saved uncompressed with the same results. Is there a good book or tutorial on the basics? Thanks Pinto

I find DIVX kinda disgusting actually personally. Its great for computer viewing, but ick man. MP2 is pretty good, but uaually, I tend to use uncompressed frames, and render to a DV cassette for viewing on a tv. Incidently, a great video compressor is BINK!, I cannot see any loss of quality whatsoever. Xbox supports it and is used they say. Check out www.radgametools.com and try the demo. It deletyes the last 15 frames or so and puts its own logo in, but u can get around that by adding 15 or 20 frames of black footage.

Thanks Slynky. Pinto