Snagit images slightly distorted

When I paste Snagit images into a Captivate 5 slide, the left edge of the image becomes slightly distorted. The rest of the image is fine, but the left edge appears to have a slight ripple in it. I can paste the same Snagit image into any other application, including Captivate 3, and the quality is perfect. Any ideas? I'm using Snagit 9.0.0

Hi Jim,
Just to add a comment to this thread. I am a long time user of Snagit and Captivate. Currently using Snagit v10 and Captivate v4.
As you have already found, saving the image first in Snagit and them using Captivate "insert" option is the better option.
What I wanted to add was...in the past I used to save the images in Snagit as JPEG's before inserting them into Captivate. I have since discovered it is better to save your images in Snagit as PNG - you get better results in Captivate this way.
You may already be doing this, but mention it just in case.
Noel
Staffordshire
England

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