That all makes perfect sense. I suppose initially it just seemed natural that if I had not used a feature until a given fram...the feature would "not exist" until then. In essence I was denying the reality of frame zero...and superimposing a fantasy world in which keyframes placed beyond i...

I find that I have to constantly place 'neutral' keyframes right before a given action to prevent the desired action from slowly taking place over the course of an entire animation...for example... if I wanted to tilt the camera at frame 250 I would have to insert a keyframe at 249 in which I simply...

At the typing of my initial post I had not obtained or experimented with Papagayo, however I will do so immediately. I appreciate the timely replies.

I am having a bit of trouble accomplishing this easily. I have my switch layers all set and ready to go, but I can see no way to distinguish between the voices/mouths, thus both people appear to say all of the lines. Is there a way to paint switch layer functionality within the timeline? the only me...