'Pan' across an image

I've seen some Keynote presentations and been blown away by the quality and visual impact and would love to 'switch', particularly when we have rumoured MacBooks in the next few days
However - I've been into the Apple Store in London to have a play with Keynote 3 myself to see if it can do one thing that I simply have to have in 99% of the presentations that I give - the ability to move images around.
To explain what I mean..
www.unmannedspaceflight.com/dougimages/pantest.ppt ( 2 meg )
I need to take a huge image like that, and then move it to simulate panning across an image - but in the brief time I've tried Keynote, I was unable to find a way to do that and couldn't find much information in Keynotes help section either.
Is this something Keynote 3 can do at all - and if it can, is there a limit on the size of image involved? I've found powerpoint will just give up with images more than about 5 megapixels or so - and some of the images I want to show are in the region of 8000 or so pixels across.
Any pointers or confirmation that Keynote can do this would be much appreciated!
Many thanks
Doug Ellison

Ok, I played around with this and I think I found a work around. Here is what to do:
1) Choose a solid color background as your theme and pick a Blank master slide
2) Take the image you want to show and, in iphoto duplicate the image and crop each one of them as follows: 1) The first one will be cropped to half of the image in the following way: from left edge to center of image. The second one will be cropped from right edge to SLIGHTLT TO THE LEFT of the center of image. If done right there should be a slight overlap of the image when placed next to eachother. This will be useful later when creating a build-out and build -in of the two images simultaneously, you would not see a discontinuity between the two animations.
3) Now create two shapes as vertical rectangles the size of the slide and place one on the left edge of the slide and the other on right edge of the slide. These will serve as masks of the images. Therefore, pick the same color for the shapes as the slide backgroud (in my case it was solid black). The size of the left shape should be identical to the size of the image that is set to build out. The shape should be placed flush with the left side of the slide. This way, it would completely mask the first image as it goes through the full move-out animation. Make sure these shapes are set Front of slide (highlight shapes and click Arrange-->send to Front) so the images move under the shapes and create a mask effect.
4) Import both images onto slides. set the "left" cropped image with a BUILD OUT of "move right to left" and set the "right"cropped image with build IN of "move right to left".
5) Play around with duration and delay of both builds to get what you want. For example, the builds should happen at the same time with a longer duration on the build out of first image and a shorter one for the build in on the second image. Delay should be able to make the transitions pretty smooth.
I was able to get it pretty darn close to the real thing.
I hope I did not confuse anyone with the instructions.

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