Controlling effects in Captivate 7

I want to have an effect that scales a background picture for the length of the slide. Although I have set the effect duration on the timeline to be the length of the slide - it does it's scaling in the first couple of seconds. I basically want to have a background image scaling very slowly, so it gives the impression of movement. (Need to output HTML5 if this makes any difference, but also doesn't work as SWF (although it work in the effects live preview.)
Any help would be appreciated.

Hello and welcome,
Could you switch to Effects workspace, and post a screenshot of both the Timeline and Effects panel?
Lilybiri

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