Will try your suggestions - timeline & preview quality. The render completely before start did nothing, so that was a waste of time. Would the best acceleration setting be the default ir Intel/ Will let you know how I get on with your sdvice Thanks Ian 

I thought I had resolved the problem with a previous movie, but it's back! I have been using Pan & Zoom on this project to increase the video size to fit and also to make some images closer, but cant see the changes for hours as rendering is almost at a stand-still. I checked set-up and varied Optimization threshold from about 20 to maximum, ...

Will give your suggestions a try. Thanks Regards Ian 

That method didn't do what I wanted or expected, but I will keep trying to see if it will work exactly how I want it to. Thanks for the reply Regards Ian

I have been trying to ''ghost'' a image onto another one. I have a series of photo's on the track and have put another photo onto the track below. My idea was to reduce the visual on the bottom photo to a much lighter tone in the hopes that it would then show through one of the photo's on the top track, thus making a ''ghost''image. I was able ...

Will try that out tomorrow regards Ian 

No other changes to the movie other than P&Z. will try other options to see what happens regards Ian 

I recently made a movie using 50 - 60 photographs, all these were edited via pan & zoom and worked out fine, but when I had finished the last edit, the brown line on the time line remained for about 1/2 an hour. I saved the movie and closed Pinnacle down, then about a hour later re-opened and the time line was still the same. It did complete ...

Another error I didn't notice to start with. I had 2 clips I cut from the main movie, but they were on the lowest timeline, about 10 minutes from the start of the movie. I then returned them back into the main timeline, went into edit and it all worked fine. Sorry for wasting your time by me not knowing what I was doing. regards Ian 

Yes, the clip was on the timeline, but will follow what you wrote and have another go. regards Ian