Well got the animation w/ sound thing worked out, however, the scrubber seems a mess. Not only does it perform really poorly, but after I redid an import I couldn't get it to scrub at all tho it rendered fine. Didn't see anything wrong, but I don't deal with the time line much so maybe I am missing something.The assembly room performance isn't that great overall compared to earlier versions.Eovia should really take a look at what D|S has done w/ their opengl. (The renderman interface standards are from Pixar and they use the open dynamics engine).

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.