Ok so you're new to Final Cut and you want to know how
you can fade to black? Well i'm going to show you exactly that in this video
Hey there welcome to the video i'm Mark Brown from EditorsKeys.com and welcome to the channel.
Now my question for you today is- "How long have you been using final cut pro?"
Let me know in the comment section below so if you're editing a video for the first time and
you want to know how you can fade to black i'm going to show you a couple of different
ways on how you can achieve that so let's jump in to final cut okay so we are now in
final cut and what i've done is i've quickly gone over to our friends at art grid to download
a few nice little shots to create kind of like a restaurant scene for you so our grid's really good
if you want to get some test footage check out a link in the description below so you can get
some footage there so as you can see i've got a few clips here of just really couple going into
a restaurant ordering a pizza and the pizza being made but anyway let's get into it if you want to
fade to black how is it done well what a lot of people will do they will go to transitions here
and they will search for a crossfade and sorry cross dissolve not crossfade cross dissolve and
they will drag this on to the end of the clip and if this is the end of your timeline this will work
absolutely fine so if we play that back as long as you don't have any other clips below your footage
that will work pretty well it just loops to the start there but as you can see it did just finish
there and fade it to black which is what we want but what do you do if you're in the middle and you
want to fade to black in the middle of some video clips if we do that over here and just put the
fade to black on there's not enough footage there so i'm going to create that transition what you'll
see is if we play it back it will just cross fade from one clip to another so what you want to do
is you want to search for a different transition called fade and then scroll down to fade
to color and then all you need to do is drag this between the selected clips and it will default to
fading to black because that's what most people want so now if i play that through here
you can see we now have that fader black and that looks really nice
but if you're like us and you have some branded colors so we use orange a lot in our videos
you can actually change the color of the fade so let's change it to orange
and then let's play that back and you can see it fades to orange so a lot of people will use a fade
to white if it's like a dream sequence or a memory flashback so play around with that now if you want
to make this a little bit longer what you can do is add a gap clip so if you go to edit and then
let's go insert generator and gap as long as you don't have any footage below your gap clip it will
go to black now of course you're going to need to add that fader color or you can add the cross
dissolve to this because of course we are just fading to black so i'm just going to add that here
you can see it fades to black and what it means is with this gap click
gap clip inserted you can actually extend or shorten the length of that so it's just i find
the easiest way to add a nice little fader black and then you can just copy and paste that between
clips if you want to so next i'm going to show you where you can do it using your opacity so we've
come to the juicy red tomatoes here and as you can see it's a nice little clip here of uh camera sort
of going through some tomatoes a really nice shot that actually so what you can do let's just say
we want our fade to start from about here just make sure you've got this clip selected then
go to your inspector here at the top just make sure it's here make sure again it's selected and
then we are gonna click the keyframe we're gonna drag that down and if you don't add a keyframe
um it will just kind of start the entire clip from black so we want to add a keyframe at 100 percent
and then we want to drag it down to here and we want to add we want to drag that down there to
zero percent and as you can see it should as we get to halfway point it should start dragging
it down slowly to black and that's a great place as i've mentioned if you want to add some titles
if you want to add some voice over to give a real dramatic look to your footage there we go
so that was super simple and i hope that's helped you it's easy when you know how and
just remember we have a ton of final cut pro tutorials on the channel right here so make
sure you check those out after this video thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one
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