Better Fade Outs

[Mark Petereit]

Try keyframing your luminance down to zero.

[Federico Urdaneta]

thanks for the response. now, forgive my ignorance, but where is this luminance? is it a parameter of an Effect?

[Federico Urdaneta]

I have tried those. But they all feel (to me, at least) as a black solid fading in on top of the video. The feeling of an aperture / iris fade is quite different as it seems to affect highlights and shadows differently.

or i’m missing something obvious here… which transition do you guys prefer? obviously not talking about the star-wipes, anything like that… when it comes to a plain, old fade, how do you guys do it?

thanks again for your help

[Mark Petereit]

Still think keyframing the luminance is going to give you what you desire. When you think about it, closing the iris on a camera is literally reducing the luminance of your image.

[Federico Urdaneta]

it sounds like a good idea. unfortunately i have no idea where the “luminance” parameter is to be found in the clip viewer. where do you see it?

[Federico Urdaneta]

well, in case anyone’s interested. i’ve keyframed the Y parameter in the YUV adjust filter (inside Image Control). give it a go and see the difference, it’s a much nicer, warmer fade. (i’m talking about fades into black, not crossfades)

thanks for the replies

[Mark Petereit]

Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about. 😉

(Sorry, I wasn’t near my FCP machine.)

[Federico Urdaneta]

no prob, thanks 🙂

only thing is, it’s a bit of pain to add 2 keyframes every time you want a fade. def takes more time than APPLE+T…… can you save this as some sort of animation preset?

[John Fishback]

Here are some plugin companies that have a wide variety of dissolves: CGM, CHV, CoreMelt, Nattress Big Box of Tricks

John

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