Save settings screen cap;
8356_c4dsavescreeen.tiff.zip
No stupid questions at all.
The camera is animated along the spline yes, the one discrepancy (now that you mention it) is that there are no keyframe markers on the timeline, I’m not sure how to account for this, perhaps that is my issue?
The camera target is the hypernurbs object in which my sphere is a child of, to create the alien cell from the tutorial I followed.
I did render out a 900 frame project, as my original post entails, it was from an angle that was never used in the project and my background was moving, which it should not have been.