This is a copy of the message I left tech support at E Frontier. Since I didn't see a similar post here covering this specific problem I thought I would run it by you all and see if anyone knows what is wrong before Tech Support answers me. Image example below. -------------- This is to report errors encountered using Poser 7 and Poser 7 SR 1 on a Macintosh G5 Dual 2.0G with 1.5G RAM using OS 10.3.9. These errors were not present when I first started using Poser 7 and have not been fixed since installing SR 1. These errors are not present in Poser 6. Although some render errors exist I will save them for a separate report. Poser 7 will not render out to a Quicktime movie. Poser 7 will prompt for desired codec but after hitting return the render will not even attempt to begin. Poser 7 renders image files correctly but will save photoshop files with no information in the blue channel except for the value of 100% blue.Tif and Jpg files will render and save correctly from Firefly. Poser4 renders in Poser 7 will render correctly but at the time of writing the image to disk will turn the background image upside down. Photoshop files will have an empty blue channel as well as an upside background image. These errors are currently keeping me from using Poser 7 and requiring me to fall back to Poser 6 which will render to Quicktime and Photoshop formats. Please help. -----------

You could try uninstalling  SR 1 like, a lot of people have that were having problems with it and just go back to P7. From everything I've read about it, it's not that stable.

Make sure you contact e frontier tech support.

it's very weird. try turning off hardware shading, or switching to SreeD. send 'em screenshots of yer lite and render settings as well.

Just a reminder, my original post is a copy of what was first sent to E Frontier. They have everything that I posted here. Immedieately after posting here, I did a clean install and still the same problems as posted above. SreeD was the answer to render problems I encountered in Poser 6. I'll check that against OGL but all problems above were rendered with SreeD. To be more specific this subject should probably be: Poser 7 Output Errors as internally the render seems to go off as planned but is damaged at the moment of output. Thanks for your interest.

The official reply from E-Frontier: ------------------------------------------------------------ The blue-channel issue actually closely resembles a bug that we found (and fixed) in SR1- I'll pass it along to our QA staff so we can see what might still be going on, but I haven't been able to reproduce this problem on my Core Solo Mac mini (admittedly it's an Intel Mac running 10.4.8); I'll check it on my Panther G4 at home (I've been saving my renders as PNGs, or I'd be able to tell you right away if it were happening) and of course we'll set up a G5 to check it out. QuickTime renders also work fine on the Mini (again, I'll check on the G4 and pass it along to QA); although Poser 4 renders currently can't include a background image, rendering over black does now produce a proper alpha channel if you save out a PNG, even if you're using the P4 engine. Here are my suggestions for workarounds to the problems you report- 1. Instead of Photoshop files, save out rendered images as TIFFs- the data that gets saved is the same; if you need alpha channels, save out PNGs; 2. For movie files, image sequences work very well, preserving image quality as well as alpha channel data if you choose PNG for the image file format; 3. Unless you really need to use the Poser 4 engine, we recommend Firefly- especially with the current support for multiple processors and the general speed boost that we gave to the new Firefly, there's no major benefit to the P4 engine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who is having this problem and stumbled on this thread via Search may find this info helpful. Their work-arounds were my work-arounds but I would rather a feature that dates all the way back to Poser3 (?) still work in the improved model. It's not like I'm expecting RT Ray Tracing! ; )