I'm new to this and have been playing around with the PP character 'Mick' and mimic, trying to send a brief animated message to my niece and nephew. Problems are, when I am making the movie, part way through (sometime several times), my PC starts 'ding-ing' at me until I wiggle the mouse around, which seems to correct the problem. The other problem is that yesterday, after trying to render it all out TWICE at about an hour each, Poser (or the PC) seemed to get hung up on the final frame. Eventually I clicked 'stop', and was unable to find the AVI anywhere (I have interupted the process before and found partial movies in my folder). Can anyone tell me what's going on and what I can do tofix it? I have a decent system (Dell P4, 1.4Ghz, 256 RAM) Thanks for any help. This place is new to me, but I like! I can see spending much time here in the future... K