Maxscript: hints on creating animation clip manager type thing?

Howdy…

it’s brainstorming time…

in essence I want to be able to collect a sequence of keys on a selection of objects into a single clip that I can then manipulate using eg. ease/multiplication curves and other simple operations.

I’ll need to be able to script/wire/etc. things like speed of playback, magnitude of playback etc…

I haven’t done a lot of animation or GUI scripting in max so I’m a bit stuck as to the best way to approach the design of all this - does anyone have any awesome ideas or really obvious built in tools that do exactly what i want already .

cheers