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Many thanks to the two of you for your help. I'm still trying to sort the logic in my mind, but I can now get the system working, even though it seems a bit quirky. Thanks, Alex

I am trying to use pan & zoom in some of my slides, but find if I use a mode of other than linear, the pan or zoom does not start and end at the appropriate keyframe, but works from the beginning of the slide to the end of the slide, including transistion effects. I have tried various combinations of modes for the three options of pan, zoom and rotate and the animation only seems to work from the appropriate keyframes if all three are set to linear. I would really like to be using smooth. A search in the various tutorials and forums has yielded no clues. Is there some setting I am missing?

Thanks for all the replies - I forgot to add that I had tried the exe on the Vista machine (bought Jan 08) first and it was fine. The laptop is a couple of years old with 768Mb, of which 128Mb is used for the graphics. I often run Photoshop, Faststone and Neat Image on it simultaneously with no problems and I have also run PowerPoint presentations with complex transitions and video, so I wasn't expecting serious issues when running a single exe. I have tried it on another XP desktop now and it nearly works; most of the transitions are there, but they are shorter than they should be and not smooth. So I have three PCs and three results; Desktop (Jan 08): Vista Dual core 2.3GHz 2GB RAM 128Mb graphics card – result OK, but some of the pans could be smoother Desktop (Jan 07): XP 2.9GHz 1Gb RAM 128Mb graphics card – All transitions present, but some curtailed and jerkier Laptop (Dec 05): XP 1.6GHz 768Mb RAM shared with 128Mb integrated graphics – All fading transitions missing except first and last ones, some other transitions missing, zooms and pans present but curtailed. So PTE does need a lot of resource to achieve its results. I have to say I am surprised that a 1.6Ghz machine even with an integrated graphics card can not handle the transitions, especially since a PowerPoint autorun slideshow can handle similar sized images and transitions with no problems – it doesn’t do the music, pan and zooms so well however and is difficult to synchronise. I will try downsizing the images that are not panned and zoomed and see if that makes a difference.

I have just bought PTE 5.1 and loaded it to Vista. In spite of some warnings I had seen about using it on Vista, everything I have tried (given I am a novice) seems to be working. I have just created my first exe for a competition and since my laptop usually ends up connected to the projector, transferred it to try it there. Not very successful: none of the fade transitions work and most of the other transitions do not work, but some do. The pans and zooms are also largely not working. Music slide timing is fine. My laptop runs XP with an integrated graphics controller using shared memory. My desktop runs Vista business with a separate graphics controller. I have seen some comments about problems with graphics controllers; is this likely to be the problem? Any help would be appreciated as I need to get it working by Thursday. Many thanks.