Cool Way to Fade to Black
The sequence you just finished is designed to cut to another shot, which is why everything ends so abruptly.However, let's say you wanted to fade everything to black at the end. How would you do it? Well, you could simply select the ending edit points for the clips on V1 and V5 and add a Cross Fade to black for each of them. But, what if you had lots more tracks? Is there an easier way? Well, depending upon how you define easier, the answer is Yes.This process works best if you have lots of tracks, say more than four, that all need to fade at the same time.
| 1. | In the Viewer, choose Slug from the Generator pop-up menu. ("Slug" is an old-fashioned word from the molten-lead printing days of the early 1900s that means "blank space." In Final Cut Pro HD, it means "audio and video black.") | | 2. | Change the duration of the slug to 20 frames, or whatever length you want for your fade to black. | | 3. | Click the a1 and a2 Sources on the patch panel to disconnect them. | | 4. | Edit the slug to the Timeline so that it ends at the end of your sequence. | | 5. | Turn on Clip Overlays. | | 6. | Option+click with the Arrow tool to set keyframes at the beginning and end of the slug. | | 7. | Drag the first keyframe all the way down, to make the slug transparent. The thin black line controls clip opacity. When the line is at the top, the clip is opaque. When the line is at the bottom, the clip is fully transparent. When the line is in the middle, the clip is varying amounts of translucent. You can use opacity keyframes to vary the translucency of any video clip. | | 8. | Play the sequence. Instant fade to black. (Well, mostly instant.)Again, if you only have one or two clips to fade, this second way is slower. If you have lots of clips to fade, this second way is much faster and much more flexible, because all you need to do to change the duration, or location, of a fade is change the length, or position, of the slug. |
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