fade to black animated text?!

[Michael Duff]

do you mean fading out the entire layer?
just select the layer and hit “t” to reveal the opacity setting … press the stop watch to enable keyframing … it should be on 100% for where you want the dissolve to start … go to where you want it to end and make the value 0%… it will dissolve out between those two keyframes

is this what you meant?

[Vin2000]

Hi there,

thanks for the quick response.

i’m doing ending credits for a film, so i have black background white text.

i want to fade out all the text at the same time to get to a black screen again.

i tried what you told me to do, but on the keyframe, if i put it on 0% on the 2nd keyframe (where i’d want to do dissolve to black) then the 1st one automatically adjusts itself to 0% as well, and vice versa with the 100%…

[Michael Duff]

you must just have them both selected … are they both yellow? rather than grey? this means they are both selected … click away from the layer and try again

[Vin2000]

they were both selected, it’s all good now, thanks!

i have more “newbie” questions coming up, but thanks again for the quick replies!