Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but thought I would start here since Poser is my primary tool.

For a few months now I've been doing some animated projects. I am the kind of person who tends to learn though trial and error, and end up developing processes that tend to work for me that way.

I generally will create all of my animation frames in Poser. I've tried doing the "Make Movie" to both AVI and Flash, the results have generally been very bad. But was has worked for me is to export the frames as png files. I then import those into Flash where I might add some audio or some other manipulations, then publish the results as a Flash movie.

I just finished a new project that rather than being a looped animation of 30 frames or so, was a video with a beginning and an end, and containing around 900 frames. It was a lot of work, but satisfying and fun, and I am really happy with the end results.

However I ran into a few issues along the way. The big one was since the resulting swf was going to be very large, ended up at over 12 mb, I wanted to publish it in a regular video format. For my circumstances, a wmv file was the best option. So I would export from Flash to avi, then used another utility to convert the avi to wmv. This worked ok, but I didn't have the option of modifying the display size of the video.

The second issue was that as I neared completion of the project in Flash, I started to bring Flash to it's knees because the project had grown so large, yet it was still just a 30 second video. I could easily see myself wanting to create animations that are 2 to 3 minutes in length.

I am just curious if others who are using Poser for animation work have any suggestions or experiences they can share concerning how they go about producing the video portion. Are there other tools out there that have the editing capabilities of Flash but are perhaps geared towards larger productions? In general are there better processes than the ones I have employed?

Vampires