Frame Blending Across Loop Point

Hi all,
I have a 5 frame animation running at 30fps, with the speed adjusted to 10% and Frame Blending checked. I wind up with a nice slow motion fade from frame to frame at the desired speed, but when it loops I get a hard jump. Any way to frame blend across the loop point within Motion? Or another way to achieve this look (without editing them together in a separate file)? The source is actually 5 individual PNG files, if that helps get the juices flowing...
Thanks!
SyddyS

Go into the timing pane of your image sequence. Twirl it open and set the end condition to loop. Then drag the end of the image sequence to the right in your mini timeline for as long as you want it to go.
Motion will loop the clip and it will appear as a single long clip so the frame blending should work across the last frame and first frame in the image sequence.
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