Powerpoint Animations Flicker Between Slide Transitions

Version
Captivate 6.0.1.240
Output type
Flash SWF, and MP4
I have a powerpoint (2010) I imported into Captivate. The slides do contain animations, mostly fade in, and fly in. No exit animimations, all are enterance. Captivate is using the animation times set in PowerPoint as I expect, and that works well for me. I did add narration audio using Captivate for each slide. After I have everything set, I produce the project as MP4 successfully.
However, then I view the video when the slides transition to a slide that has animations, there is a quick flicker that shows the animations for the slide even though they are not really seen until sometime into the slide. This effect is very distracting and takes away from the impact of the slides having seen a flicker of the exposed animations. It almost seems it is adding a video frame of the final slide.
I have tryed the following:
-Reapplied the patch
-Added fade slide transistion in Captivate (This only makes the flicker last longer)
-Tried the different produce settings
-Tryed produce to Flash, but same effect.
I am looking for a solution to this, or a workaround I should be concidering. My final option is to pull the MP4 into Premier to remove the frames, which is not why I bought Captivate.

I am seeing the same thing. I just recently updated to ver 6. This is very much not good.
Also, by buttons keep resizing themselves to little tiny boxes if I change any properties.
Please fix these fast!

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