CoreAnimation - Opacity Fade In and Out Animation Not Working

Question

I\'m attempting to create a fairly simple CoreAnimation for use in an AVComposition. My goal is to create a CALayer which, through various sublayer

Answer 1

The alternative way is the using CAAnimationGroup. CAKeyframeAnimation also works fine for UI. This code works fine in UI for show animation real-time. But will not work at all in AVVideoCompositionCoreAnimationTool - please scroll down if you need it. It is not code ready for copy-paste but you can get the idea. Also, you can add addition animations to the group:

for (HKAnimatedLayer *animLayer in layersList) {

    overlayLayer = [CALayer layer];
    [overlayLayer setContents:(id)[animLayer.image CGImage]];
    overlayLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
    [overlayLayer setMasksToBounds:YES];

    NSMutableArray *animations = [NSMutableArray array];
    // Step 1
    {
        CABasicAnimation *animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
        animation.toValue = @(0);
        animation.duration = kLayerFadeDuration;
        animation.beginTime = kMovieDuration/5;
        animation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
        [animations addObject:animation];
    }
    {
        CABasicAnimation *animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
        animation.toValue = @(1.0);
        animation.duration = kLayerFadeDuration;
        animation.beginTime = kMovieDuration*2/3;
        animation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
        [animations addObject:animation];
    }

    CAAnimationGroup *animationGroup = [CAAnimationGroup animation];
    animationGroup.animations = animations;
    animationGroup.duration = kMovieDuration;
    animationGroup.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;
    animationGroup.removedOnCompletion = YES;

    [overlayLayer addAnimation:animationGroup forKey:nil];

    [parentLayer addSublayer:overlayLayer];
}

Here small note about animation on layers for AVVideoCompositionCoreAnimationTool. You can see relevant gif image (titles should appear and disappear one by one). To solve this issue I use 2 separate CALayer's because for some reason on one layer 2 opaque animations on multiple layers are glitched.

// set up the parent layer
CALayer *parentLayer = [CALayer layer];
parentLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);

// one layer for one animation
CALayer *overlayLayer, *barrierLayer;
CABasicAnimation *animation;

for (HKAnimatedLayer *animLayer in layersList) {
    overlayLayer = [CALayer layer];
    overlayLayer.contents = (id)[animLayer.image CGImage];
    overlayLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
    overlayLayer.masksToBounds = YES;

    // layer with appear animation
    if (animLayer.fromTime != 0 && (animLayer.fromTime - kLayerFadeDuration)>0) {
        overlayLayer.opacity = 0.0;

        animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
        animation.fromValue = @(0);
        animation.toValue = @(1);
        animation.additive = NO;
        animation.removedOnCompletion = NO;
        animation.beginTime = animLayer.fromTime - kLayerFadeDuration;
        animation.duration = kLayerFadeDuration;
        animation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;

        [overlayLayer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"fadeIn"];
    }

    if (animLayer.toTime == kMovieDuration) {
        [parentLayer addSublayer:overlayLayer];
    } else { // layer with dissappear animation
        barrierLayer = [CALayer layer];
        barrierLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
        barrierLayer.masksToBounds = YES;
        [barrierLayer addSublayer:overlayLayer];

        animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"opacity"];
        animation.fromValue = @(1);
        animation.toValue = @(0);
        animation.additive = NO;
        animation.removedOnCompletion = NO;
        animation.beginTime = animLayer.toTime;
        animation.duration = kLayerFadeDuration;
        animation.fillMode = kCAFillModeForwards;

        [overlayLayer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"fadeOut"];
        [parentLayer addSublayer:barrierLayer];
    }
}

And at the end, we can get proper animation sequence