Hello,

I've been experimenting with the Poser Animation (Make Movie / Compression) schemes to find the optimum settings for creating an animation (.avi) to bring into Final Cut Pro, edit, then output to Television / VHS.

The problems I'm having range from:

(1) the Window Size in Poser being too small (doesn't fill the TV screen) or too large ("overshoots" the TV screen),

(2) the compression scheme being too low (poor quality image) or too high (causes dropped frames in FCP), and

(3) sometimes horrendous lengths of time to render.

For example, I've tried 640 x 480 Window Size, Microsoft Video 1 Compressor, 100% Compression Quality, NO Key Frame Every, and NO fps Data Rate. The animation stalls in FCP and gives me a dropped frame message (my MAC settings are all adjusted for optimum FCP usage).

So, I changed the above settings to 75% Compression Quality and 15 fps Data Rate but the quality was unacceptable.

And so on...

Does anyone have a suggestion for the settings I should use in Poser to get the best possible output?

1. Window Size
2. Compression:
   (a) Compressor,
   (b) Compression Quality Setting,
   (c) Key Frame Every Setting,
   (d) fps Data Rate

Thank you in advance,

Jeff Clinkenbeard