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Thanks all for your advice. I can get everthing working as I want now. Very cool effects. Rich

Multiple keypoints animation. I have recently started to experiment with PTE5 and have come across a problem in objects and animation. I can assume that it is not my pc as I have tried it on another one of faster specification and the behaviour is identical. I am playing around with animating an object moving over a customised slide. The object pans from side to side, zooming and rotating in all about seven or eight times. So there are multiple keypoints. So far ok. Next I tried changing from ‘linear’ panning to ‘slow down’ so that the object at the end of each pan came to a gradual standstill. Now when I play the sequence the object goes from the first to the final keypoint in a direct line missing out the intermediate keypoints. This also happens with ‘smooth’ and ‘accelerate’. Altering these parameters in Zoom and Rotate does not cause this same problem, but others. Selecting anything other than ‘linear’ to ‘zoom’ causes the effect to occur over the whole of the sequence rather than between the keypoints it was intended to occur. Selecting anything other than ‘linear’ to ‘zoom’ prevents the ability to edit the zoom or rotate the object when a keypoint is selected Selecting anything other than ‘linear’ to ‘rotate’ prevents the ability to edit the rotate when the keypoint is selected. Any introduced rotation disappears if anything other than ‘smooth’ is selected. These are just a few anomalies. Is it me? Or is it a bug? Obviously if only a start and finish keypoints are chosen then these problems are not apparent, it is only if multiple keypoints are made. One thing I have learnt is that all of the settings have to be reset to ‘linear’ before any editing of the position or size or rotation of the object is possible at a particular keypoint, and it is best to only use ‘linear’ when you have multiple keypoints Rich