How do I stop overlay from appearing on screen first?

In the intro to my story, I place the overlay off screen and make it move down onto screen. But it pops up really quickly right before the animation, and ruins the intro. How do I stop it from appearing on screen first?

Did you use the @overlay create command or did you place the overlay in your background? (e.g. INT. BACKGROUND with OVERLAYNAME)

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This is what I’ve got, I think I tried doing it with the background but something went wrong xD

If it won’t do it with the background, maybe use & signs instead.
So, your script would look something like:

INT. INTRO
&overlay INTRO_WORD create
&overlay INTRO_WORD opacity 1
&overlay INTRO_WORD shifts to 4 580
&overlay INTRO_WORD scales to 0.557

@pause for 2

@overlay INTRO_WORD shifts to 4 72 in 2

Let me know if this works :relieved:

I don’t know why, but it’s coming from the bottom rather than the top now… hahaha
It’s no longer randomly appearing though

Oh no :thinking: I’m not sure why it’s doing this. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I forgot to add an extra 0.557 on the scale command. Other than that, are you sure you’ve got the right shift numbers?

I’m not sure what went wrong, but I actually prefer it the way it is now :joy: :joy:
Thank you so much !

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u need to shift and scale the overlay first then set the opacity to 1

INTRO
&overlay INTRO_WORD create
&overlay INTRO_WORD shifts to 4 580
&overlay INTRO_WORD scales to 0.557
@overlay INTRO_WORD opacity 1 in 0

@pause for 2

@overlay INTRO_WORD shifts to 4 72 in 2

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Thank you so much !!!

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no problem

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