Just a quick sample of what I'm trying to accomplish, but I think it could be smoother, more polished look to it in regards of the smoothness of the animation (as simple as it is..)

Video file size is only 700KB, rendered to mp4 format from 100 frames in PoserPro2014 (1st frame Y axiz 0, 100th frame Y axis 350)

http://www.eastcoastphotos.com/animtest/spin.html

Any suggestions to make it smoother would be greatly appreciated.

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have done all that of which you recommended but the problem persists on some of the characters / models I create for my stories. If I delete that character and rebuild it, most likely the problem goes away. I don't think it has to do with the purchased poses as this will happen on any pose. Somewhere along the process something is inputted into the character and everything goes bunkers. Even when I start off with a neutral pose, the first thing I do is select body and try the y rotation to make sure the model rotates on the spot. Later on while adding hair, clothing or skins, (even the items that have worked previously) this problem will pop up at the weird time and I can't make it go away..

I'm sure the fix will be a simple slap to the forehead moment thing.. "D'Oh" kinda fix.. but trying to find it.. ?

Same as some models have a green cross down by their feet that is somehow afixed to how their heads are moved.. If I tilt the head all the way back, this green cross swings out in front of her feet..  It doesn't appear to affect anything but show up in the preview screen.. not all models, just some.. but I don't know what that is or what causes it to appear. Just one of those things I've put up with over the past years.

Ooh, just what I'd been looking for.. I'll give the html5 link info a try and see if that works out since most of my anims are saved in mp4. Your anim link shows more of a slide show effect while I'm trying to duplicate the html5 link style.. (sorry my terminology is askew)

My Poser images, 100 of them for this anim project was saved in PNG at a large size. I have a rather heavy duty PC and loading and rendering them to mp4 video through AE takes but a minute.. Rendering 100 images through Poser takes about an hour at that size.. But I'll try it again at a smaller scale as suggested..

I ran into a problem this evening with a new anim where I would load the images in AE to render to an mp4 video but now find myself unable to add a text layer to the video as I did previously.. and I dunno why.. Software glitch or ineptitude on my part? Docs say to 'add text layer' but this is greyed out.. hmmm

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Much appreciated!

hi, it's not the 'camera' view that is causing the issue but the movement of the model. Instead of spinning on it's toes it sometimes goes 'orbiting' around a central point.

Whereas I create story content where there are more than one model, just trying to get the one model to rotate in place in front of the other now means I have to rotate it to the desired angle and then move it back into place in front of the other model.. Selecting on the hip is not always ideal because the hips may not be angled properly thereby causing the model to cant and lean in odd directions.

I still haven't found what is randomly causing this issue or how to rectify it.. quite annoying when it happens.. =(

Thanks for the reply.. I have done the image sequence into AE and exported to MP4, and another one to .flv (flash video) but can't seem to get the anim to play constantly (looping). A lack of coding knowledge on my part I would say. Would you have a sample html code as to what it should look like for an .mp4 file?

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It doesn't matter which camera is being used (I primarily use the main camera) and checked that the character is not parented to anything.

Imagine the character strapped to a large ball and when you rotate the dial, the ball rotates with the character on the outside of the ball, that's what it's doing..  When I select the hip (vice body) then the character will rotate on the spot, but this is only good when the character is full upright.. if its tilted or angled depending on the pose at the time, then it doesn't rotate on the spot like I would like it to do..

This problem is starting to appear in some of the newer projects I've started after trashing the previous ones with the problem.. Hmm

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately it's not the fix. I've fired up PP2014 and given it shot but to no avail.

When I describe the problem, perhaps I've not explained myself properly. Again my apologies if not using the proper terminology as I try again..

With the model standing upright in the centre of a scene, and with the body selected, I should be able to rotate the Y rotate dial and have the model spin in place. But what the model does is go around the room as if tethered to an invisible rope going around a fixed point in the centre of the scene..

I've checked the hip parameters and the X Y and Z are zeroed.

If I save just the character and load it back into another scene, the problem follows the character.. if I recreate the character (time consuming) the problem is not there.. So what IS causing this problem and how to remove it.. :/

This does not happen all the time but more often than I would like. It simply slows productivity down and makes it frustrating to work.

Thanks again in advance.

In such a case, how does one move it back?

Thanks for the reply!

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Also be aware you  can download all of the poser animation videos to watch later at you leisure from the download link under the videos.

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Very helpful indeed.. Thanks again!

well how about that.. I had to shut down poser 2012 and restart it and there we go.. looks like all the tutes and samplers I've seen elsewhere.. I think I ended up with that no numbers problem by accidently deleting a bunch of munged up frames and starting over again by adding 120 frames.. I guess the palettes don't like that..

Now, onward and forward with some learnin'..

A long time ago I used to work with an anim software (on the Amiga) that had a neat feature called "ping pong".. You would set your pose as you wanted it at the first frame and copied it to the last frame.. no matter what you did in between, it would 'tween from the first to the last frame.. excellent for those repetitive clips like somone bouncing a ball, tapping on a door and doing something extra in the middle of it all.. can poser also do something like that?

Sorry folks, my RTFM skills suck on this one.. =(  I really want to learn how to do this, I'm patient.. but erhm... slow..

thanks for your patience..

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Superb! JUST what I've been searching for!.. and as you mentioned in your first tutorial installment, I'd been doing the animation posing in the 'bad' way, not fully understanding what the palette and graph were for.. 

Thanks again!! I'll be watching the other tutes tonight..

cheers M8

thanks, that does make sense but I don't seem to be able to see any splines what so ever to make adjustments to..  when I click on the red spline symbol, the window pops up but there is nothing displayed in the window as the tutorials suggest there would be. I must be missing something. Once I have that sorted out, I hope the rest falls into place.. 

Thanks again!

and THAT is just what it was..

MANY thanks! I don't know how or why that got selected during the model build.. Sweet!

Cheers, problem solved!

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And THAT, sir, says all one needs to know about SSD drives ;)  Ran drive is free and much much faster.. I'll have to revisit that one again..

Thanks for the great info, much appreciated!