hello i'm using the timeline in poser but i noticed some annoying things. First, there is a kind of orange/yellow line on the top that i think represents the range of rendering. But if i do an animation that is longer than that, the orange bar doesn't seem to grow so i have take the tedious task of having to pull that render orange bar and make it longer. And that's where the next problem comes in, to pull the bar and make it longer i have to pull the mouse, and the moving is not smooth as i would like it to be. It tends to get stuck( the mouse is fine, but the program is the problem)as i move the mouse to the edge of the screen to go along the timeline bar. anyone know if there is a way for the yellow/orange bar to automatically change to the size of your animation? like as you see here, even if changed the total time to 00:30:00 and at 00:29:00 an object is moved( not shown here), the yellow bar doesn't change. but it should i would believe. any tips for manipulating the sluggish interface in the timeline? I'm on macos X 10.3( i don't think this matters but i ll just throw it in) : )

tebop, The number you see next to the frame rate is NOT the length of the animation. It is just the length controlled by the scrub bar (that long line at the top of your image here). Animation length is controlled (as you surmised) by the yellow bar in the timeline. The easiest way to change this (without having to drag it) is to go to the render room and look under the Output tab. The file format header has the length to be rendered. Simply put the length in the supplied boxes (in minutes:seconds:frames format) and it will adjust the marker in the timeline. If you are rendering at 24fps and your animation is 29 and 1/2 seconds you would enter 00:29:12 as 12 is a half second at that frame rate. Simple? Maybe not, but that should explain it. Let me know if it's the same on a Mac as I use a PC. Ken

From what I've been told by Antoine the Mac/PC versions are the same. I agree with cckens observations though. I also think familiarity and time spent within the interface plays against the "sluggishness". I've done a number of shorts for demo CDs with Carrara 3 and felt pretty darn comfortable with it. Could possibly boil down to personal perspective. One man's Porche is another's Ford...if ya know what I mean. Kat