Animate 2 + Mimic Live + rendering with iRay?

heisdave

Hi, Im interested in doing some short animated scenes with my daz characters and locations. I'm checking out tutorials for animate 2 for movement and minic live for the lipsync. The Anmiate tutorials usually show working with  the character in empty space (no scene) and setting up the movement in a timeline. And the Mimic live tutorials also show the characters speaking in real time, without a background. 

A. Mimic is a separate product from animate, can I integrate the characters Mimic speech into the animate timeline? 

B. The tutorials I've seen don't show rendering, but I'm assuming that once you get everything set up you must still render the scene ?  how is this done? Is the output a mp4 instead of an image?

C. If the character is walking, then the background location must move with the cratacter, meaning that it must all be rendered together currect? If you are using iray wouldn't this take hours? Or is this handled some other way?

Thanks!