Question

[ACER]

How come whenever I save an animation it's only 3 seconds long?
Is there any way I can fix this?

[Genete]

Set number of frames for the project in Project Settings. Number of frames combined with frame rate gives the duration of the movie.

There is a short cut: click with the mouse in the timeline at the frame numbers with ALT pressed at same time. The blue gray area determines the movie duration.

Taken from the help

A certain range of frames in the time ruler are shaded with a darker color. This shaded region indicates the length of your animation. When you play back your animation in Anime Studio or export it as a movie file, this shaded region is the part that will play back. You can change the start and end frames of your animation in the Project Settings dialog, or you can <alt>-click in the time ruler to set a new start and/or end time. <alt>-Click with the left mouse button to set the start of your animation, and <alt>-click with the right mouse button to set the end.

[Víctor Paredes]

File > Project Settings

start frame 1
end frame 0

Save as defaults.