

Select your Clip, click on the Effects Tab, and then Edit Effects. Do a Save_As, and increment your Project's file name, so you do not overwrite what you have, and so that the new Project stays Open. It also appears that your Opacity rubberband is showing 100% Opacity. It appears that your CTI (we'll use the existing nomenclature, at least for now) is in about the middle of your Transition, which I assume is a Dip-to-Black. The red line is the Edit Line, and is attached to the CTI. Walsh, Boyens, and Jackson wrote “BLACK SCREEN” and “BLACK CONTINUES” rather than a simple “ FADE IN.” If you’re writing a screenplay of your own, just know that “FADE IN” is usually regarded as the industry standard verbiage.The "playhead" is called the CTI (Current Time Indicator) and is the little blue 5-sided polygon. Pay attention to the language that the writers used in this opening section. We imported the The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring script into StudioBinder’s screenwriting software to take a look at how writers Fran Walsh, Philipa Boyens, and Peter Jackson communicated the dramatic “fade in” at the beginning of the story. In many ways, fade-ins (and fade-outs) are rooted in theater production where the lights go down in order for stagehands to move scenery around without the audience seeing. FADE INįade-ins are often used to show a change in scenery.

There are a lot of fade transition examples that we could go over, but we’re going to stick to the three main types: fade-ins, fade-outs, and crossfades. Fading Transitions Fade transition examples
