I've been having a problem here and it may be related to memory, but maybe not. When rendering an animation (anything above Preview quality and more than 500 frames) on my Macbook Pro laptop (with 2 GB of RAM, albeit 400MB of junk on my desktop - I'm embarrassed about that), P7 shuts down before the output is complete. I've had no such problems on my Mac Pro with 4 GB RAM and can't figure out the difference. Also on the laptop, I rendered the first 300 frames of the same animation against a white background (as opposed to the Poser-specific 2D background I was using) and had no problem. I also note that this just started happening after I installed the latest P7 Service Release. Anyone else run into the same issue during moviemaking? P5, P6 and P7 have never shut down on me before, for any reason, and I'm stumped.

the "easy" work around would be to render as stills, then assemble them in a video editing software.

Thanks, jerr3d, but I'm not really looking for a workaround (for my higher-quality work, I usually do, in fact, output the project as stills and then assemble in Final Cut Pro; this is both a draft and a component of a larger animation). I'm more puzzled than anything about the shutdowns, and can't figure out why I'm having one when I've never had one before.

I would guess SR1? I never had a crash until I installed SR1. Got rid of it and I have not had a crash since. Not a good solution because SR1 fixed some other things but at least I can render without crashs.

Looks like SR2 is in order and the sooner the better.

Beryld, how did you get rid of SR1?

Re-installed P7. I backed up my runtime to a different drive and did a complete clean and install. then dropped my old runntime over top of the new one so nothing was lost or changed in the process, so all the pz3/pzz files could findeverything. I also pointed all my runtimes back to it.

It is getting to be a habit. Having to do the same with Vue6I. The final release screwed up memory so we had to go back to the second to last pre-release that worked great. Un-like poser, Vue should have it fixed this week or so they say.

Well, well, well. I finally encountered the same problem on my Mac Pro rather than my laptop. The dialogue box claims it has something possibly to do with bucket sizes and adaptation vis a vis memory. But with 4 gigs, ya kinda wonder what's really up. I guess it could be the SR1. And thanks for the warning about Vue 6.1. I was about to buy it to do (among other things) some rendering. Now I'll wait a week or two.

Excuse me, I mean Vue 6 Infinite, not 6.1.

I use a bucket size of 16. That seems to help. But I must say, with 4 gigs of ram, you would think poser would work right.

Vue6I is worth it. I don't know if they would let yoy have the pre-release until they fixed the final. The second to last pre release works fantastic and works very well with Poser.