Right i can reduce it to, say, 2 frames. Which is what i did.
Anim8or does animations really nice...but it wont grab the surfaces like blender animation.
However, Anim8or is easy to use and understand.
I watched your tutorial...its really hard to see what exactly you are doing.
3dconvert says no nodes still, and will do 100 frames anyway even after setting it to 2.
When it finishes the 100 frames, it says, 27000 nodes created. I assume its a vertex count.
Is this a bug with 3d convert using 3ds?
Have you tried to import a 3ds animation yet?