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Andy, sounds strange! I may be misunderstading you but here's a possible trick. If you have 147 seperate objects you could take the first one and create 3 keyframes for it: frame 0 out of view of the camera, frame 1 centered in the camera view, frame 2 out of view of the camera (same as 0 if you like). Then do object/ copy tracks/ from this firt object to every other (hit the H key and tag all the other objects). Then go into the track info and slide the 3 keyframes to a unique frame number for each successive object: frames off screen on-screen off-screen object01 0 1 2 object02 1 2 3 . . object147 146 147 148 If you are following me correctly each object will appear in view for one frame and then disappear. You could render this one file and get a sequence of numbered .gif files. This is the fastest way I can think of other than creating 147 seperate .3ds files and doing a huge batch file with a line for each. Hope that helps Martin