Magic Move goes Motion Blur

I have a horizontal strip of thumbnail images which I am using Magic Moves to navigate left and right between slides.
When I increased the number of image thumbnails to approx >20 (still determining limits) the Magic Move 'motion blurs' the images for the duration, even if it's moving at a snails pace of 160 px in 3 seconds. Grouping the images makes no difference. Saving the images as a single image file the Magic Move works as normal. However – and this is the problem – I need hyperlinks on the images so the single image file is not an option.
The motion-blur effect threshold is undocumented. Any assistance gratefully received.

Yes this was my instinct too regarding transparent hyperlinks. It seems the limit for these thumbnail images (each one is 160px x 90px) is 22 and then it motion-blurs. I just tried with 17 images and 10 or so transparent rectangles and it worked okay. So seems they aren't such are drag on MM
Was trying to make the whole thing modular so client can re-arrange and substitute into the thumbnails (image placeholders) and the projects slides they link to which is why I wanted it simple. One thumb with one hyper-link for each project; all grouped together to help MM along. I'm trying to convince my client KN is better than PPT and he can't understand it when I come across limitations, no matter how much complexity he keeps throwing into the brief as I go! This whole scheme was actually impossible prior to MM due to hundreds of possible transitions 28x9 approx. that would have required move builds.
Now he wants the flexibility to add projects without me :/. Which is why I resisted the transparent links above single file with a few extra empty boxes for expansion. He and his staff may struggle to comprehend the madness!
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