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Grahame- I'm glad someone else is having the same problem. I was afraid it was my video deck or something. I'll be very interested to see what the solution is. I have the same problem just crossfading between 2 images. For example, I wanted to fade between image one (A logo on a background) to image 2 (Same logo and background with a phone # added). The effect I was looking for was to simply have the phone # fade up. The fade was 30 frames. I tried every combination I could think of (Fading #1 out, Fading #2 in, Fading #1 out & #2 in simultaneously), but I still got a darkening in the middle of the fade, roughly frame 10-20. I ended up creating the phone number against black and using alpha to fade and composite over the same background. That seemed to work for that instance, but that doesn't cure the problem for full screen fades. One other problem I've had is a 15 frame fade to black. It seems to be pretty choppy (the fade has noticable steps). Have you had this happen? Like I said, I'm looking forward to the solution on this one. -Mark