I have set up a scene in Carrara and gone in to the render room.  I set the start time for 0 and the end time for 60 seconds and I get these weird numbers when it renders like rendering 1 of 1800 which is way too many frames.  Please advise and thank you.  Yes I have checked it is 60 seconds.

Have you checked the frames per second?

60 secs times 30 frames per second = 1800 frames :) 

You have the frame rate set to 30fps.  So 60 seconds times 30 frames per second equals 1800 frames...

Duh so much for my math..I had a much lower have no idea what I was thinking...

30fps is optimal.  It's the same fps rate that the human eye sees with.  Sometimes games and some other apps try to increase speed by cutting it down to 28fps.   Most people can't even tell the difference.   The problem is that a certain percentage of the population (I think it's like 10% or so) have issues when the fps rate is off like that.  This is one of the things that can cause some people to get ill by watching some video games and such.

24fps is the standard for movies and for shot on film television shows. 30fps is the rounded up NTSC television video frame rate. 25fps is the rounded up PAL television frame rate. Some folks save render time by rendering at 24fps and import the frames into Adobe After Effects to convert to the standard video frame rate as is done with regular movies when prepared for television or video. If you're just doing things for fun, it doesn't matter much.