# Bring layers in and out with transitions

Wipe, iris, dissolve or slide a picture in and out of the loop, and choose when it shows.

Every picture layer (image, video, generator, 3D logo and 3D text) has a **Transition** section on the **Motion** tab of Tune. It sets how the layer arrives, how it leaves, and when it's on screen. Text layers have their own build in and out, set in their own Timing section.

## Bring a picture in

1. Select the picture layer.
2. In **Transition**, choose an **In**. Its light comes on.
3. Set **In length**, and the **Direction** for styles that travel.

The layer arrives at the start of every loop. Whatever is under it shows through until it's in.

## Send it out

Choose an **Out**. It plays at the end of the loop, so a layer can arrive, stay and leave inside one loop. A wipe leaves in the direction it came in.

## Show a layer for part of the loop

Move **Start** and **End**. Outside them the layer is hidden, so two pictures can take turns: give the second one a Start where the first one ends.

## The styles

- **Fade** dissolves evenly.
- **Wipe** sweeps across in the **Direction** you set.
- **Iris** opens a circle from the center point.
- **Blinds** opens in strips. **Count** sets how many.
- **Blocks** arrives square by square, in random order.
- **Dissolve** spreads in through soft, uneven shapes.
- **Burn** eats through like flame. Raise **Edge glow** for a hot rim.
- **Clock** sweeps round the center like a hand.
- **Doors** opens from the middle outward.
- **Checker** fills a checkerboard, half the squares first.
- **Slide** moves the whole picture in from off the frame, and out the other side.
- **Ripple** opens in rings from the center point.
- **Interlace** draws every other line first, like a tube warming up.
- **Glitch** drops in band by band, out of order.

## The other controls

- **Ease** shapes the motion. **Smooth** eases both ends, **Linear** is constant, **Snap** starts fast and settles, **Gentle** is softest.
- **Softness** blurs the moving edge.
- **Edge glow** and **Edge color** light the edge as it moves.
- **Center X** and **Center Y** place the middle for Iris, Clock and Ripple.

> TIP: Transitions follow the loop, so they come back every time it plays and export exactly as you see them.