OK keyboys answer me this then. I am used to Animation:Master and it has a feature for pasting mirrored keyframes. Say you have you first frame of a walk cycle, you select the model then go to the middle of the cycle and PASTE MIRRORED it flips the characters stride. Then you copy frame one again and paste it at the end of the cycle and your getting there (kinda blocks out the motion).

The other feature it has ( I have looked at Mayas keys option boxes but I don't quite understand them yet) is the ability to paste in a hierarchial fashion. Say you have a control for the whole model (pelvis) and some for the hands. Now you could copy a frame and paste, but only want to copy the position of the hands and not the whole (pelvis). Can you make Maya only copy the poistion of the hand and paste that rather than the poistion of the whole model?

I would have thought so but tell me how...