Start with a transition

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I don’t really know how to explain this and maybe it’s already been answered, I’m sorry if it has. Here goes:

I know I can have a choice of 25+ more transitions between two elements on a video track. But what I would like is to be able to have those transitions available to the beginning of a single element. For example, right now I can have a Fade In Video filter at the beginning of an element, but I’d like to have the element appear, for example, Diagonal Top Left. I know I can do this kind of Heath Robinson by using a hidden element, off the canvas, and mucking about with the timing of the effect, but is there a proper way to do this that I have missed?

Many thanks in advance!

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I’d do it by putting a transparent (or black or whatever) image first, then doing a transition from that to the element you want.

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Yes, that’s similar to the Heath Robinson method I mentioned. I wondered if there was an “official” way to do it. Guess not - you cannot transition from “nothing” to something, or something like that. No worries, Heath Robinson to the rescue!

Thanks!

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Yes, that is the way or some other color since that is implied (transition from what, black?). Then, you can delete the clip before the transition.

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