Dip to Black only starts increasing in brightness halfway through the transition

[Tom Fewchuk]

In this clip here with Dip to Black applied at the beginning, the clip only begins to get brighter halfway through the transition effect. But the entire first half of the transition, it's just completely black.

Some people might say that's how it's designed which I would question.. why?

But still, that's not how I would want the effect to work. I want it to start increasing capacity linearly from 0s to the end of the transition, kind of like, oh I don't know.. how the transition graphic is visually portrayed! 

This is not intuitive, and of course I know I can change the opacity of the clip with two keyframes to do it the way it's meant to, but that method is more time consuming and fiddly, esp when applying to many clips and just wanting to quickly change the length.

[Ann Bens]

Dip to black is best suited for a double sided transition 

for a single sided transition tweak the transition in the effects controls or use a cross dissolve or a black color matte 

[Tom Fewchuk]

There's nothing you can do in the effects controls that makes it work the way I'm wanting, but the cross dissolve is a good tip. I think I've used that before instead but forgot that it actually works correctly, so I guess I'll just switch to that

[Ann Bens]

If the transition is at the head of the clip you need to tweak the left window to 50%.

[Peru Bob]

Try unchecking Composite in linear color in the sequence settings.