Just wanted to ask a few others if they do encounter the same problem as I do. Its the following issue: Setup, for example, the angelfish - animate a bit the body and then set the render engine to sketch - now animate it to a sketch animations (do at least 60 frames). I have the following problem with that -Ive used the Cinepak codec (others as well), but it only renders till frame 41 - and then P6 freezes (have to shut it down through the task manager). I have tried the same with the Toonimal Frog from DAZ - same problem. Then Ive tried to animate it with the FireFly render engine and everything was fine. Rendering only 1 frame with the sketch, everything is fine - but at frame 40/41 it "kicks out" sigh Does anybody have the same problems? Thank you for your feedback! Oh .. Ive noticed also, that loading different Runtimes with P6 really takes a heck of time - time was shorter with P5. Anybody?

maddy I am sure you are frustrated but may I gently say that we are all waiting for a much-discussed fix for this. There is a memory problem. It increases with each frame rendered until the render stops when out of memory. CL is working on it. Luckily, it is so bad, and so many people have reported it here that it cannot be ignored or delayed and the fix will arrive. One way to live with this in the meantime....always exit all the way out of Poser and relaunch right before you render. That may not be enough, however. Have you ever considered rendering to single images? That way, if it stops far along you can resume where you left off. This practice gives you many other advantages, also. The only issue is: you have to assemble your folder of final images into a vid with an external piece of software. I use QuicktimePro ($29.99) for Mac and Win. There are many others, some free. Happy fishing! ::::: Opera :::::

Have you tried rendering to seperate images and then assembling them into an AVI with another program ?

Thanks for your answers ;) I havent tried it yet to render to single images - but in the meantime (where we all wait for the fix/patch) itll do. Again - thanks! Cheers, maddy