I spend hours making my animation smooth and I think I might be doing it the long wrong way. Let's say I have three pictures coming in and out. I take each picture and bring into the library. I create a movie clip and start with frame one to 30 and put the first picture there. I then create motion and have it start Dark to light on frame 1 to 5, then on frame 20 I fade to dark.

The next layer on top is the second picture and while the first is getting darker I use the alpha to bring this in . Then I fade it out after 29 frames etc..

You can see I use the timeline to do all this. My question, am I doing this all wrong? I notice others have really smooth transitions and wondering if they are using some other method. If so do you have detailed instructions.

Thanks