Are the Poser authentication servers down? I was just running Poser earlier this week. Yet I am receiving the dialog window "Unable to contact..." I am in the Inglewood, California. Obviously my internet connection is working, because I am posting this message. I have Poser version 11.3 on my MacbookPro

Sorry for being late to posting this response, but I was searching for this answer and I found your post, which gave me several ideas to try.

As a result, in Poser Pro 11, I create a Dolly Camera from the Object menu> Create Camera> Dolly. In my case it becomes "Dolly Camera 2," followed by selecting the camera from the top of the character's parameter settings (Body> Cameras> Dolly Camera 2), then moving the camera in front of the character. After you have the camera in front of the character and framing the character the way you like, then go to the Object menu and choose "Change Parent." At that time, it should be set to "Universe," which you can scroll down until you can select the character that you want the camera to follow. Hope that helps