EDIT: Ha. A reboot and suddenly things are working in the program so I''m just gonna .... yeah about that. Still have questions. Hope folks are willing to help.

I just downloaded the trial of CTA 2 (now 3) days ago and have spent two sleepless nights just trying to get something to work. So I hope I can have my following questions answered, because this limited trial isn't quite frankly enough for me to make a real decision on it turns out. For the record I have been looking at the tutorials here: https://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk-animator/tutorial.html. At the time of this posting I'm still going through them, but with fading hopes.

1. I had to use an old tut for CTA2 (not 3) to bring in my character. Has CTA3 improved on this process, and if so how? (still wondering)

2. Is it possible AT ALL to keep the *** eyeballs from flying away?!?!??!!?? Without finding an appropriate tutorial I had to experiment and try to set things by myself. I also have calibrated many times. (still wondering)

3. Are you able to manipulate the character's pose manually? The premade actions are GREAT but in the event I need a character to make a shrug, how do I do that? (solved! The 2D editor now works properly. Woot. Although I admit the system is a bit way off from what I'm used to. I never did care much for puppeteering.)

4. The timeline is problematic. Is there a way to simply tell it "insert key frame" so I don't have two actions blend into each other or have the character bounce to new places?  (sort of solved.)

5. Also speaking of the timeline Is there a way to tell the timeline "only look at frames x to frames x"?!?!?!?! Because, seriously, who expects everyone to only  make 500 frame long animations? :-p

6: New with edit: So uhhhh....... the thing I'm working on turned out to be longer than the frames I'm "allowed" to have. Is there a way to split out the last scene to start a new file so I can continue without having to rebuild and somehow get the character pose perfect?

And finally. 7.  If I buy the basic version (finances, y'know) will I be able to upgrade to another one later? I haven't really hunted hard for that answer yet, but though I'd ask here just in case.