This is related to my post on the Facebook group. I downloaded 2016.9 and opened a sequence and wanted to start adding effects on new models I have for this year, as well as add more effects to existing models.
All new effects I add seem to have a fade out built into them. The fade out box says 0.0 and I opened the sequence xml file and see 0.0 for fade out next to each effect. When I added these effects yesterday I was not playing with the fade out option at all.
Specifically I am talking about the "Mini Trees" models at 1:01 - 1:15 and the "Mega Tree" at 1:15 - 1:32. These were the new effects I added yesterday and all appear to have the fade out effect.
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be touching anything else in the Layer Blending box, I haven't done so so far.