whatever I do I cannot change the default behaviour - I’m sure it used to be possible to lock in back in the smoke days - for example, with an element, I would like to have the transition default to fade up to cut and not be inside the element - any ideas?
What you can use is an timeline cut to ‘achieve’ this with 1 click more.
Add a cut in the gap you want the transition to start and create the disolve. With “up to cut” and enough handles setup, the transition will be set from marker to segment. Only issue that way is, you will have a gap cut with the transition start that way and not an open longer one.
These are all great workarounds. Thank you. I think it seems that the behaviour I am looking for is broken. I pretty certain it used to be there in smoke 6. Or 5.