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>> I have been having for now months the same problem with camera flythroughs: I >> just can't get the camera >> to go smoothly from one keyframe to the other. Pierre, Camera paths are a little tricky to get smooth. I've been working on a maze fly thru (67 separate camera paths!) and the following guidelines have helped. Hopes it helps you a bit. 1. Link both the camera and target to a dummy and keyframe the dummy for most moves and rotates. KF the camera target for looking up or down. 2. Keep those KFs to a minimun!!! If you can do the path from the KFer and not inport the path from the shaper this will help. 3. Use the PATHS – SHOW/HIDE for the dummy and zoom in to the keys. You will see _most_ discrepencies as unequal frames (dots) in and out of the key. There are a set of commands very useful for visually adjusting this spacing under PATHS/ADJUST and PATHS/ADJUST TCB. *PATHS/ADJUST/KEY TIME* is invaluable for this, as of course all the TCB settings are. 4. This depends on the project and I find maually adjusting (as above) better in most cases… Try the SMOOTH button in the tracks info dialog box but save your work before trying this. Good Luck, Ralph