render to an image sequence, in png or tiff. It's safer anyway (easier to fix minor glitches, or to recover from a creash)

Timeline, or AniMate 9even in Lite mode I think it allows you to set key type in Pro). If that won't do the job you need to look at the new Go Figure Key-soemthing product.

render time gets written to the log file - Help>Troubleshooting>View log.

No, I'm afraid not.