I got it done, thank you so much for the help, I couldn't have done it without you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UnV_FORqQ

You are absolutely right! I was adjusting the switch layer not the bone layer! I also think I've probably messed this thing up so much at this point I'll be better off starting from scratch to avoid any glitches in it, I have to run out for awhile, I need to go take care of my father, getting his di...

i just tried going in and doing a simple one character moving across the screen, went to channels tab, with yours I saw a bunch of bones on the left side, with mine a box with arrows in it, but with just the one character I could manipulate the time line on the channels tab

no, the file you sent shows what you were trying to show, but the file I've created thus far, which has a background image, 4 characters and 2 audio files, only shows the audio file on the channels tab, on the squencer tab I see everything, but not on the channel tab - difference between pro and deb...

do you have a program available to link to my computer so we can share the screen then maybe you can show me what I'm doing wrong?

Nope, it was unchecked. I checked it, still only audio file, unchecked it, still only audio file

Well, yea, that's exactly what I need him to do, but I don't see how to get him to do that. For some reason when I try to go into the channel tab all that shows is a single audio file, I've clicked the man in the layers tab, but channels still only shows an audio file.

oops wait a minute, I didn't see the link to the example you provided before, let me go watch that and see if it clears it up for me

I'm sorry to be so dim, but I just don't understand -

After reading what you wrote I tried going to frame 354 and then dragging the character over to where he should fall and clicking frame 378 on the timeline but that didn't work either.

PS I just tried setting the end at 384 instead of 600 but all that did was have him take 3 steps, get nowhere near the mark where he was supposed to trip and fall and then it ended.

I don't understand why I can't make this work! Character "Man 1" I need him to stay still till actually frame 354, then walk across the screen from 354 to 378, then trip and fall forward. So I go to frame 378, click in the timeline to set a marker, drag him across the screen to the place i...

Good morning. I worked on the tutorial till nearly midnight last night and now I'm back at it and hit another roadblock, all the tutorial references I've found have you creating animation from frame 1, but the only character I need to animate in this scene needs to stand still for the first 30 secon...

OK, thank you, I'll figure out a way to make it work.

Argghh! Another problem already! I have 2 people trying to have a conversation, I tried to just add the 3rd part of a 4 part conversation and it told me I can only add 2 audio files. Is that true? If so, the only work around I can think of is to time the reply and just allow dead air on the first au...

YOU ROCK! It worked! Thank you thank you thank you! If you don't mind I'm going to leave this thread open to perhaps post follow up issues? I created a product, contest is to get it on the shelves of a major retailer and I need to create this commercial to submit to them so I'm desperately trying to...