How Do I Fade to Black

[Jeff Linderman]

Unless I’m misunderstanding what you’re looking for, you should go to the effects panel>Video Transitions>Dissolve>Dip to Black.

Then simply click and drag that to the end of your sequence. From there you can adjust the duration in your effect controls panel.

Hope this helps.

[Steven L. gotz]

If you have one track, a simple single ended transition or Opacity effect is fine. With multiple tracks, I create a black video in the File > New section and put it on the very top track. Just keyframe it from zero opacity to 100%.

[Whitlock Dunbar]

Sounds like creating a solid and adjusting the opacity will be the most efficient strategy. Forgive me if i sound like a whiner, but shouldn’t “fade to black” be a simple drag and drop effect like “dip to black”? In my years of editing spots for broadcast, 99% of the spots fade to black. Is there an obvious reason (again I’m new to Premiere) that this isn’t a simpler process?

[Steven L. gotz]

Well, it is possible to add fade to black on each and every track by way of adding a single ended transition, but that would be a hassle and it probably would not give you the result you were after. I suppose they could add an effect that you would add to the top layer, but that has never been requested by enough people I suppose.

I have a project that I import to almost every project I create.

That project has a sequence with Black video faded in, and one with black video faded out, and others with the same thing happening with a White matte. It also contains my logo and various other things I use in almost every project.

So, it is easy for me to apply a fade in or out by using the appropriately named sequence as a clip to accomplish that kind of task.

[Vince Becquiot]

There is one more way…

Add the dip to black transition to the top layer, double click on the transition and change the end to 50. Done.

You can also also set your fade duration at the same time.

Vince

[Whitlock Dunbar]

Thanks Vince! That sounds like the way to go.

[Graeme Minchin]

Thanks, had the same prob, sorted.

But for the record r u able to reverse dip to black in CS4, as stated in the 1.0 manual? As with an earlier inquirer I can’t find the settings adjustment in the effect controls window.

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