Sorry Dan. I’ll try and be a little clearer.
I have an iPhone image. Within the screen of the iPhone is a wide precomp with photos every 640 pixels. When the hand comes in to swipe the screen the precomp moves 640 pixels to reveal the next photo . The animation will stop here until the hand comes in and swipes left or right for the next or previous photo.
If there are 6 photos in the precomp, there will be 6 little circles ( all seperate layers ) evenly distributed horizontally at the bottom of the iPhone screen. The first circle is already 100% opacity , but as the precomp slides away , the first circle fades out to 0, and as the next photo eases into its position the second circle goes from 0-100%
I hope this has made it clearer Dan.