Im on Mac, and Vue works quite differently, there. I saw Vue on bicore PC open two scene windows, which is not possible on Mac, as far as I know. It seems to me, that opening two windows at same time, at least for v.5.o9, is more a bug than a feature. Is perhaps something e-on prepares for the future. Now, with two windows open simultaneously, Vue takes a hell of a time to respond, up to several minutes. And it does not close as it shoud, requires seveal assaults to give in, and the finally crashes. I fear that Vue 5.o9 isn't yet capable to distinctly manage the content of two scene files. Seems it doesn't know which data belongs to which scene. I'm not astonished, that it crashes, then - I think that e-on would have announced such a feature, to have several scenes open simultaneauosly, with great publicity (I ask for such a possiblity, since more than a year...:-). Well, that gives me hope, that they'll manage such a feature in a future version, with intra-Vue copy/paste, let's say, for v.6.o9-o9.97 ? Wow... and jest paste images into the materials editors, copied from image apps, or drag/drop'em without browsing all disk... dreaming of a white christmas. Up to now, the only ways I know to clean transfer materials, objects and such from one scene to an other, is, to save them from the first scene to disk (either mats, atmosheres, and objects individually, into the 'collections', or thousands of things grouped togeteher into one .vob file), close the scene, open the other one, and load the saved item into the scene. For simple things, it seems to be sufficient to 'copy' the item before closing the first scene, and 'paste' it when the second scene came up (without saving to disk the copied thing), but that seems to have limits, when copying more complicated things. I didn't yet try that with animation...