Image with entrance effect

Using Captivate 5.5, I've inserted an image on the slide that is wider than the slide itself. The right edge of the image lines up with the right edge of the slide. I want to add an effect to the image so that when the slide appears, the image appears immediately. Then the image moves from left to right until the left edge of the image lines up with the left edge of the slide. None of the white slide background should be showing at any time.
I've tried various settings with the effects, but each time, some of the white slide background shows at the beginning and/or end of the effect, so that the image is not covering the whole slide.
Can anyone help me?

Hi Jay,
Just tried it out and cannot get your issue
I inserted an image, set it to No transition in the Properties panel (did you do that?), aligned it to the right of the stage and added the effect LeftToRight. Then I changed the motion path so that at the end the image was aligned with the left border of the stage, extended the effect till the end of the slide. This seemed to work as expected, I never did see the background when previewing in Browser or from this slide. I did not publish.
Lilybiri
PS sometimes I set the effect not to start when the image appears but 0,1sec later.

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