Change colors as animation?

(I'm sure this is easily done, but somehow I can't find how)
I'd like to animate (build) an object's color change (as is easily possible in PP), ideally "fading over" - a green disk, say, changing non-instantaneously to red (or whatever).
A work-around is making one or more duplicate objects, placing them on top of each other, changing their color appropriately, and building them to appear over the first one. But that's inelegant, but there must be a better way - an "action", or whatever, applied to the object itself). Right? Any solutions/ideas?

Welcome to the forums!
There is no easier solution than the method you have already identified. There is no action that will change the actual colour of an object (you can change the transparency, of course, but not the actual colour).

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