Thanks a lot for the helpful info!

Thanks for the great info!

Thanks everyone, for the wisdom. I'll follow up on your suggestions.

Well, no one so far is selling Poser 4 by itself (w/o pro pack). If anyone knows of someone who is still selling it, let me know. Thanks.

I really want to use Poser with Vue d'Esprit and have read about lots of problems (on the Vue page) people are having with Vue 4 and Poser 5. I want to do animation and I've heard from numerous people that Poser 4 and Vue 4 (with Mover 4) work well together.

Yes, I have version 4.10-02

Hey, I discovered that it's definitely not a disk space issue - it's a codec issue. I cleared several GB's from my C drive (ahh...it felt good) and the problem still persisted. Then I changed codecs. I had been using the codecs for my real time nle system (Matrox rt2500) and it didn't like them (bummer - that means I can't edit Vue animations in my NLE system realtime). When I switched to several other .avi codecs, including "uncompressed", it rendered fine. Also, it didn't like making QT files. I have QT 4 pro, but it is telling me I need to reinstall it. I don't know why, since all QT files and player work fine otherwise. Any thoughts?

Thanks. Before I try what you suggest, I have one more question: Why does it matter how much space is on my C drive if it is not a part of the equation? (At least, it doesn't seem that it is to me - please correct me if I'm wrong) If Vue is on one drive with plenty of room (G) and I am choosing to render my completed file to another drive which has plenty of room (F), what diference does it make if a third, seemingly unrelated drive (C) is a little full?

ooops. sorry, dude. missed that. OK - I went to the last post. It suggests that the problem may be with a corrupt file (Is that the one you mean?) I don't think that is my problem. I am not able to do ANY rendering for animation in Vue. It doesn't matter what the scene or animation is. To answer your question: My C drive total size is 9.38 GB and I have 1.86 GB free space. This is FAT 32 and has my OS on it (Win2k). I also have an F drive that I use for video capture (this is the one I was trying to render my animation to). It is a 60 GB drive with 33.5 GB free space. This is NTFS. Also, I have another drive (G drive) which was partitioned off my C drive with Partition Magic. This drive is where Vue 4 is. It has a total size of 9.74 GB and has 4.25 GB free space. Thanks for bearing with me on this. I appreciate it.

Well...there certainly were a lot of words and opinions in that string, but no real concensus on anything (from what I could make out) and Aleksander never got back to the string with any thing positive regarding the suggestions made. I have a great, fast, stable, roomy system and I should be able to render animation on it. I've never had any problems with Bryce 4. I have a number of intense programs (Bryce 4, After Effects 5.5, Premiere 6 w/Matrox RT2500, Flash MX, etc.) and there is no problem rendering animation or video on any of them. Any other thoughts, anyone? I really want this program to work because rendering animation is why I bought it. Besides this problem, it looks like a great program. Oh, BTW - my C drive is a bit low on space, but Vue 4 is not on my C drive and the drive I am rendering to is not my C drive.

No, Windows 2000. Also (in case it's important) I have a 1.4 GB Athlon processor and 750 MB of RAM.

Hey, I installed the Vue 4.1 update and reinstalled Mover 4 and the crash problem is gone. But the other problem persists. When I try to render an animation, I still get the same message: -- When I try to render an animation, I am told that there is either not enough disk space for the animation or the file is opened in another application - neither of which is true. I have about 20 GB on my hard drive and no other application is open except Vue 4. LR

Thanks, Sharen. I'll do that. Do you believe this is the answer to both of these problems? LR

Thanks, Lynn!

Thanks, everybody!