Text caption transition

I have a slide with a stand-alone video (not a slide video). I also have a text caption below the video that I want to be static text. But no matter what I do with the text caption's properties, it fades in and out. I've set it to no transition, I've tried fading in only and setting the timing to 0...no effect. I have the text caption set to play for the side duration. Still no effect.
Am I missing something really elementary here?
Thanks!
Rachael

Hello and welcome to the forum,
Is this the first or the last slide of the file? I'm asking this because the default Start & End setting of a file is also to fade in/out. You can change that in the Preferences, Project, Start & End. I suppose you already checked the slide transition?
Lilybiri

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The Timing accordion of the Text caption could allow you to apply the setting 'For rest of slide' to all text captions (use the curved arrow, highlighted in screenshot), but the drawback is that this timing accordion also has the start time that will then be applied to all text captions, which is not always what you'll want. So for the example of the screenshot, all text captions would get a start at 4,5secs if I applied this setting to all.
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