Animation playing once, then playing the first few frames when it shouldn't

I'm dealing with an issue with animation transitions in Unity. Whenever there is an animation transition, the animation would replay its first few frames before transitioning.

Here is my animator

And here are the animation properties

 

Looks like you may have accidentally stretched StandAttack's bar on the right side. I see a line there at the edge. Slide it around a little. I'm not a fan of the analog style of the blending controls. I'd like to be able to type in numbers. Ah well.

 

Thanks. I tried your suggestion and tuned the animation. That didn't solve the problem, unfortunately. However, I turned off loop time and it no longer played the 1st frame. Still, I want to be able to loop the animation without encountering that nasty side effect. Do you have any insight into this?

 

I just discovered that the transition replays the first few frames of the original animation before playing the animation it's transitioning to, not just the first frame.

 

What? Weird... I have never had a problem. How many FPS was the original animation done at? I used to like to use 12 FPS but unity reports everything at 30. Things played ok but I wonder if there's a quirk when you make animations at arbitrary FPS. Just an idea.

 

I ended up "solving" the problem by using the appropriate animation settings depending on the transition. Turns out that for animation states with an exit time checked transition, an animation with loop time unchecked is appropriate. When the animation is meant to loop until a transition, THEN the loop time should be checked. I was doing the opposite. Thank you for following this thread and providing suggestions