I was wondering, I see other peoples animations, and they are clean and reasonably sized for their length. I just created a 4 second animation with a single character, a couple props rendered at 320x240. It weighed in at 5.5MB. Is there any way to get better compression out of Poser?

Try the DivX codec, it seems to work very well.

Yeah DivX is the best for Compression/quality ratio.

You can download the DivX codec here.

A few words of caution:

There are three editions of the DivX codec. DivX 5 (free), DivX 5 Pro (free), and DivX 5 Pro ($30). The Pro versions have additional encoding features for advanced users, but unless you really like to fool around with compression options, the regular version should be sufficient. The free version of Pro is bundled with adware, unlike the others.

I usually get better results by first creating uncompressed video in Poser, then editing and compressing the video with a third-party utility afterward. It gives me more control over the process. VirtualDub can compress or recompress to most AVI codecs.

1 rule i've learn the hard way, always make your animation in the higher quality availible,save them as master and then you cand compress them. Laurent

Thanks for all the help and suggestions! I'll download the DivX codec and try it out. Do I need to do anything to make the codec available within Poser's animation setup? Little Dragon, as always, you are a fount of info. I am just getting started with little animations, and learning about it in general. I will have to come back to using VirtualDub or other outside software once I start making useful animations. As opposed to my little test ones }-) Again, Thanks all!

Definately render at full quality...You might even consider doing still frames if you have the hard drive space and a video editing package that can reassemble it into a video file. (This can let you do touchups or effects in a paint program)