In light of the current posting issues being experienced on this forum I am double-posting this because I'm not sure people will see the original. I just checked the Content Paradise Anime Studio Forum and lo and behold, someone there claims that he just purchased and downloaded version 5.6 earlier ...

I just checked over on the Content Paradise Forum and someone there says that he purchased and downloaded version 5.6 today!

One way is to go to the desired frame on the timeline and right-click while pressing alt/option. Also, you can go up to File>Project Settings and enter the new number in the "End frame" box.

I just successfully exported a QT movie from Toon Boom Studio and imported into ASP with the alpha channel intact. I selected PNG compression type set at "millions of colors +." That "+," of course, is important in order to retain the alpha channel.

Click on the key to highlight it (turns red) then click the Delete button on the Timeline menu bar.

Well, there are the online tutorials, but you really should check Help/Help as jahnocli mentioned. This will open the Anime Studio Users Manual and the third item down is "Tutorials." I think you'll find these quite helpful to get started with. Also, e-Frontier *is* publishing the AS offic...

If you can get as far as Tutorials>1-Basics>Tutorials Extras.Moho, open that file and you should see a pop-up window like the graphic in the tutorial showing you options for "Beach Ball" and "Frank." Select Frank and click OK and he should appear in your workspace.

I did read selgin's comment and tried setting the final frame to "0" but once I begin animating a layer and creating keyframes a finite timeline is established and when I play it back it begins looping again even though the project setting says "0" as the final frame. In other wo...

Okay. Thank you, vern.

These are good tips for adjusting the length of the timeline and the length of a loop, but no one as yet has suggested how to turn off the loop completely (regardless of timeline length.) Is it possible to do so?

Also, you can option/alt-right click directly on the timeline to extend or make adjustments. (Option/alt-left click will change starting frame.)