Basic Effects in Captivate 9

Hi all

I'm still pretty new to Captivate 9 and one of the things I've found the most puzzling is the basic effects. I get the motion paths, the entrance, emphasis and exits they all seem to work as expected. But the basic ones like 'Alpha to' or 'scale to' are the ones that are confusing as they don't behave in the way I'm expecting them.

For example in the screen shot I've attached I simply have a square with 2 x 'Scale To' effects applied to it. One at the beginning to scale to 2 for both the x and y and then one at the end to scale to 1 for both x and y.

So if I only apply the first 'Scale To' effect the square grows and then stays at the size it's scaled up to for the rest of the slide.

Therefore I'd expect it to be the same when I have the second 'Scale To' effect at the end. Then when the playhead hits that second 'Scale To' effect it would scale to the set x and y in this case 1. So essentially the square would grow to stay at that size until it gets to the second effect and then shrink to the original size.

But it doesn't work like this, instead it seems to grow to the size set in the first Scale To effect. then slow start to shrink to the size set in the second Scale To effect before the playhead even gets to that effect to trigger it.

I've noticed similar inconstancies with things like Alpha to... where as scale to scales to a set size and keeps the object at that set size, Alpha to doesn't.

Am I misunderstanding how they're supposed to work?