[kmatusik]

I'm trying to animate a cutaway through an object, and at reaching about half way into the object, I'd like to zoom in close to some of the fine features. During the transition, I switch the camera parameters for view up from (0,1,0) to (0,0,1). This takes my object from a vertical orientation to a horizontal orientation. The transition isn't smooth, so I tried the approach of changing the opacity smoothly from 1 to 0 to fade out the object (animation view-object-opacity), then bring it back in its new orientation by varying the opacity from 0 to 1. It works fine except that my object has a backface which does not fade by varying the opacity offered in the animation view; the backface has its own opacity control. I would like to know the following:

1. There is no way to add two camera controls to the animation view bar, correct? For example, at a point in the movie, I wanted to switch between 'follow path' and 'interpolate camera locations', because the former offers a nice visualization of the path and makes editing it easier, but the latter created a smooth transition between my two 'view up' orientations.

2. Is there a way to control the opacity of the whole object in animation view? Right now the backface of my object remains when I attempt to fade out the object.

Thanks so much.