I've done a few great projects in Vegas 4 - have always been able to get the effect I want until now: I can't for the life of me get an effect that I saw in this video sample:

http://www.digishare.com/can-vegas-do-it.wmv

The closest I got was
http://www.digishare.com/my-best-shot-singletrack.wmv
what I couldn't do, but desire, is a crossfade between still photos - not fade out/fade in like I'm doing in my best shot.

When I try to crossfade between photos - I get a nasty effect with transparency:
http://www.digishare.com/bad-transparency-singletrack.wmv

I even made a desperate attempt using multiple video tracks - starting the first picture at the lowest video track, and stacking a track for each picture thereafter (ending up with a video track per picture:
http://www.digishare.com/desperate-attempt.wmv
Yes - Vegas does allow for unlimted a/v tracks - but at some point it becomes difficult to manage.

Any ideas?

(notes: Not sure if these are the best methods - but here's what I did:
- to get the pictures "tilted" and not full frame - I'm using even pan/crop - not track motion. this allows the tilt attributes to stick with the photo as I move it around.)
- I used 3d fly in/out to have the photos "zoom in".