CompuServe Messages

I went the Compose/Controls/Transparency Channels path to adjust the transparency of a merge. I found the three channels with buttons to click them on and off, and a large blank panel underneath. Calling up the help function, it indicated that sliders were supposed to be there. There weren't any. Seems like the gadgets for those channels have vanished! (Clicking the buttons on and off didn't make any sliders show up — I tried that.) The multiframe sequencer actions when processing an "anim" file gets curiouser and curiouser. Sometimes things fall apart on frame 3, sometimes 4, and sometimes it runs to unknown parts and gets images that haven't even been referenced — maybe a buffer someplace — and does a couple of frames before it says it can't find the image file. Maybe I'm trying something IM can't do. I just want to add some processing effects to animation frames in a file and store the processed frames to another animation file. JEB