The animation time always takes precedence over transition times. That is animations always complete before the transition takes place.

The timing for brush animation though is especially stupid. If you have animate by letter ON the default delay is set to 4% which is always wrong!

Not easy to explain. If the timing is set to say 15 seconds (You can type your own time in if you double click the entry in "Animation Pane") obviously you want it to take 15 seconds and it won't. The you need to set the delay between letters to match the number of letters. (I know crazy)

So if there are 20 letters set to 5%, 100 letters 1%.

Hope that makes sense.

You will probably find it easier to use font color change BTW!

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