New at least to Poser on Windows. Not that Im knocking Windows, far from it, Im looking forward to running the application on the new machine. Which I lease from my accountant but anyway this is going to be an interesting first month. Two questions. I was of the impression where from I dont know that Poser 4 could render in the background like a printer or CD burner while we happily go about other tasks. Please tell me if Poser 4 on Windows XP Home is able to do this and how is it done. Not that my Mac is able to do it either and at 400 it is slower than the 2Gb AMD. The other question was the animation format. Sort of a survey really, I will be putting the animations onto PAL system vhs and I go to do the anim and theres half a dozen compresser formats to pick before I can start. What should I use? What do you use? Is Poser 5 any better?