I am making a HD video, 1920x1080 frame size. I can export individual frames from Poser in that size with no problem. But when I make an animation, setting the movie to pngs and the frame size to 1920x1080--all the frames are rendered as 1596x812.

I've experimented with various settings but the 1596x812 seems to be the upper limits, horizontal and vertical, during movie-making. I searched the reference manuel and see to mention of this limit. And I can find nothing here in the forum.

I am using PPro2010.

I can set my frame size to 1444x812, and thus keep the frame ratio the same so I can enlarge the images in Adobe's Premiere. But the point of HD is to, well, optimize the high definition, so I dont like doing this.

I can set the pixel per inch resolution higher in the Render/Render Dimensions dialog box--from my usual 100, for movies, to 200, say, to make up for the difference. That should work.

But is this 1596x812 really the limit? And is it the same in PPro 2012 or 2014?

I don't have PP2010, but in earlier versions of Poser you can specify any size you like for animation frames and I doubt that's changed. There's a selector for full / half / quarter / preview size in my movie set-up - I assume you have something similar - is yours still set to preview by any chance?

Quote - I can set the pixel per inch resolution higher in the Render/Render Dimensions dialog box--from my usual 100, for movies, to 200, say, to make up for the difference. That should work.

  That won't work, by the way. PPI doesn't change the number of pixels that are rendered. In fact that setting is more or less pointless, unless you're sending image files to an old-skool printer, and possibly not even then.

Hah! I had set everything right, I thought--render to exact size, etc--but I didnt have the selector set to "Full." That made the difference. Though I still dont understand why it would render and export an individual frame to the full size, but wouldnt during the animation. But this works, so I am happy. Thank you very much, English Bob.

But I just checked--my computer is rendering the properly sized animation right now, at the full 1920x1080, and they are coming (according to Photoshop) at 200 ppi. Are these real pixels, or some kind of Poser trick?

PPI is a print resolution reference and will give you a print  5.4 by 9.6 inches

OK...I know the ppi doesnt matter for the computer screen...I just figured it would make a difference if the imagwe were blown up a bit...not a problem any more! Thanks!