Limiting the ripple effect

Hello
I'm creating a movie consisting of several slideshows in a row. I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the timing of still images at the beginning of a movie in the first slideshow without it affecting the timing of images at the end of the movie in the last slideshow. Isn't there someway to add a "barrier" of some sort to keep the ripple effect from going too far down the line?
Thanks for your help!
-Shari

As far as I understand your question, you're trying to change the length of a few frames at the beginning of a slideshow, but have it not effect the last frames. To me this sounds like this. Ex: you have two 5 second slides and you want to make one 7 seconds and the other 3 seconds without changing the timing of the rest of the slides. I assume you have a certain time that you want the last few slides to play at. In this case, if you were to alter the duration of a slide or two at the beginning, you would have to change the transitions between the changed slides to counteract the timing. If the change in the slides at the beginning affects the slides at the end, you're most likely going to have to change all the slide durations manually until you get what you want. Probably not what you wanted to hear. I may be wrong on all of this, so I'll see.
Trevor

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You're welcome!
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