Want to animate the first slides of multiple cycles with one pager

Question

I'm using two Cycle slideshows with a single pager and different effects on each slideshow (with the metadata plugin).

I would also like to animate the first slide of each slideshow as documented here, but I'm having trouble with the syntax.

This is my current js

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('.slideshow').each(function(index) {
        $(this).cycle({
            pager:  '#pager',
            pagerAnchorBuilder: function(i) {
                if (index == 0)
                    // for first slideshow, return a new anchro
                    return '<a href="#">'+(i+1)+'</a>';
                // for 2nd slideshow, select the anchor created previously
                return '#pager a:eq('+i+')';
            }
        });
    });
});

The effects are coded on the .slideshow divs (with the metadata plugin)

<div class="slideshow { fx: 'scrollRight', timeout: 0, cleartypeNoBg: true, speed: 750, easing: 'easeInOutBack' }">
<div class="slideshow { fx: 'scrollLeft', timeout: 0, cleartypeNoBg: true, speed: 750, easing: 'easeInOutBack' }">