Hi, all --

I keep having new problems with the Mac - Carrara 6 Pro - Poser 6 workflow.  Here's a new one that I've done a search for an answer for and found nothing:

I've loaded an animation of two Poser figures into C6P via transposer.  The figures are wearing clothes and have solid objects as hair.  (The end result is a cartoon, so I'm not using transparency or anything fancy in the hair arena.)  Carrara becomes unbelievably slow with these two characters.  Here's what I mean.

The animation is 9 seconds long.  I click on the timeline at, say, 4 seconds in (or I type the desired frame into the current time field on the sequencer tray -- doesn't matter).  Carrara doesn't respond for a good 15 or 20 seconds, then I get the spinning beachball for another 20 or 30 seconds, and then, finally, the scene moves to the 4 second point.  Once I'm at the 4 second mark, I can move characters around, move the camera, change lights and so on in a reasonably quick manner, but the fact that it takes nearly a minute just to get the current time indicator to move to a sepcified time is crazy.  As you can imagine, this delay makes it difficult to do any interesting camera moves or really ANYTHING inside Carrara. 

Is there something I'm doing wrong?  It's clearly not the open GL settings or anything like that, as once I'm at the desired time, everything moves just fine.  It's just moving to a new point in the animation. 

This happens on both our Quad-Core G5 and our Octo-core MacPro.

It almost seems like Carrara is loading the scene in from poser at every frame, and that's what's taking so long.  Could that be the case?

Is there any way of making it possible to actually DO something in Carrara with a Poser animation?

Please help!

Thanks!
Dex

PS:  I used to do similar work using C5P and Poser 6 on a much less powerful machine under Windows XP and it seemed to be much faster.  Could this be yet another Mac only issue?  And please, don't anyone tell me "get windows," "run windows under wine," "run windows under bootcamp" or anything like that.  It's just not helpful;  I'm on a mac and I'm staying there, and the software should work on a Mac, as Daz and Eovia before them have sold it as cross-platform.  Thanks!