forgive me for jumping in here, cuz i'm just a poser beginner. i've done some very simplistic avi's with the standard skeleton model. are you saying that if you keep the same pose from keyframe 10 to 30, and say... have 1 second per frame, that poser doesn't hold the pose for 20 seconds? that doesn't seem right. about AM: i listened in on the email listserver for about 6 months. my advice is for you to drop AM and run away as fast as you can. rigging and smartskinning a model is a nightmare, even for the experts. i'm dead serious here... bail out now. cut your losses. if you insist on continuing, definitely join the listserver. not that its that helpful. good luck, miker