Fade-in Fade-out effect???

[unison]

Hi! How can I add the fade-in/fade-out effect to a video? Is there any simple way of doing this? I have Adobe Premiere but Im not very good with it and I dont know how to do it in there, can anyone explain? If there is a simple way of adding fade in some other softaware please let me know!

Thank you!

[tgpo]

You can do the effect in iMovie i do believe. All you need to do is find where you want the fade and drag the transition from the effects menu into your video.

[unison]

Thank you for the tip! Im now having a problem importing MPEG video files into iMovie!

[epo]

Womble MPG-VCR has fade effects too. Sometimes had problems with recognizing full movie length tough.

[tgpo]

Actually Imovie will only import DV movies.

[oldfart13]

You can use Ulead's Video Studio 6 to add that kind of effect...

[unison]

does that exist for mac? i only have a mac...

[unison]

theres nothing for this kind of effect on a mac???

[Russ Black]

You can use iMove to do these transitions but as you know iMovie only imports DV formated files. Well you can convert your MPEG files to DV using the following programs:

*Sparkle's MPEGSplit - Freeware - http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/graphicsutil/sparkle2.45.sit.hqx
*QuickTime PRO - $30 from apple - http://www.apple.com/quicktime
*SoundApp - Freeware - http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/
*Lots of HD space

* First you take your .mpg file and you need to split up the audio and video portions of it. So you open MPEGSplit and you select your movie. What this will do is make 2 seperate files, one with just the video and one with just the audio portion.

* Next you need to change your audio portion to AIFF. You do this by using the 'Convert' function in SoundApp.

* Now you need to recombine the files. To do this, open the video portion in Quicktime Movie Player. Then open the audio portion in Movie Player. Press apple-a to select all of the audio, then copy it to the clipboard. You won't need alot of memory to do this because it's simply pointing to the file. Select the video window, and make sure the playback head is at the very beginning. Now you have to paste it(apple-v), but while you paste it hold down the option key. This tells Movie Player not to paste in front of but to paste over it, therefore combingin the audio and video portions! After that completes go to the 'File Menu' and select 'Export...'. Select 'Movie to DV Stream'

* Now take the file you just created and place it in the 'Media' folder in your iMovie's folder and launch iMovie. It will tell you it has extra clips and it puts them on the shelf.

NOTE: You have to have a current project in iMovie (You can create a blank one). AND YOUR VIDEO CLIPS CAN NOT BE LONGER THAN 9 MINUTES 20 SECONDS!!

Have fun!

[jchansen]

Final Cut Pro can do that as well, and can import any kind of video. You aren't limited to DV. iMovie certainly is the easiest, however.