Ron, You asked for the settings I used, concerning the effects I used some of them, my favorite is fade in/out. Sometimes the slides are only less than one second on the screen, if I use text strings to appear or let pictures shift one after the other across the screen. Therefore I got relative much pictures within a short time. But I thought it might be possible to let the show run as long with as much pictures as wanted. Are there any restrictions in time and/or picturecount? Al, No, I did not add the pictures at the timeline! I added the pictures on the main screen and customized some of them concerning effects, times and objects on the slides. After that I switched to the timeline to adjust the pictures to the background music. At the end of the timeline there are some pictures missing. When I try to add the missing pictures to the timeline using 'Insert Slides', and switch back again to the main menu, I find these new added pictures twice, one at the original place and one at the newly place inserted in the timeline. Hope this helps in explaining my problem. Thomas