Philippe:

Thanks, oh "master of the camera" ... both virtual and real. I think "2" might work the best, if I understand what you mean. I'll certainly give it a try.

I need to make a list of "Vue Frustrations" and do a seperate post. Hopefully, it's just a matter of getting used to the interface, but here is one other thing that drives me nuts:

Let's say you want the camera to rotate 350 clockwise (like a pan around the horizon.) So you start out facing "north", for example, then move your slider to 10 seconds, then rotate the camera clockwise about 350 degrees. Well, Vue likes to take a "shortcut for some reason" and go the shortest distance. Instead of rotating the 350 degrees clockwise, it goes NEGATIVE 10 degrees counterclockwise. WHY DOES IT DO THIS??? No other animation app (Poser, Bryce, 3D Studio, Truespace) acts this way.

Even if you set a keyframe at the halfway point (like 5 secs) then put the camera at 180, it will then REVERSE the camera back the way it came instead of continuing in the same direction. Crazy.

I know there has to be a way to override this ... but it shouldn't be this hard. It should simply do what you tell it to do. I think Vue tries to DUMB THINGS DOWN too much.

-Tim