Lower track not shown during fade in upper track

Here's a screen shot. You have to look closely, as the gray is very dark, but you can see a color difference between the edge of the canvas which is black and the edge of the image. This happens at exactly this frame. A frame earlier the lower track which contains the dark gray color clip fills the canvas space.

As you can see in the image, I wasn't correct in saying that there's a crossfade between the images. Actually, it's a fade out for the previous image, and a fade in for the next image. This is probably why it doesn't work. But perhaps there's still a workaround. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion and yes, they are cross dissolves. I just tried fade to color, cause it sounds like just what the doctor ordered. I'm not so worried about exact color matching, as long as I can get close.

Unfortunately, 'Fade To Color' only means that the color is gray at the end of the fade while it still kicks in black at the beginning of the fade. In other words, it doesn't matter which color I choose, the beginning of the fade always looks the same.

So I came up with a workaround: removing the gray background in the stills so the border is transparent.

That's pretty labor intensive, unfortunately, because not only do I need to process a bunch of images, but I also have to align the images on the canvas over again. It does look good however, as I just saw with a test with one of the images. Too bad that fade to color didn't do the trick. Thanks anyway :-)

Thanks so much, using the opacity to fade does the trick. And with 'copy attributes' it's super quick. Much better than my workaround that thankfully I only tested on a sample image :-)