Visual fade in/out videostudio editor 10

[nuttypat]

Can you help???? Is there an effect that can let me fade into a scene and then fade out?
I know there is one in the movie wizard section but I'am having a spot of bother moving my projects to movie wizard from within videostudio for editing fade in/out and then back into videostudio as when i click next instead of going stright into my videostudio timeline my project ends up as a completely different file and then I cant reterive my project!

[Ken Berry]

It essentially depends on where in the project you are talking about. If you are wanting to start the entire video with a fade in, insert a black colour matte at the very beginning of the timeline. The colour mattes can be found in the same drop-down menu where you find transitions etc: in other words, up to the immediate right of the top right-hand corner of the preview screen, there is a small window which normally has the word 'Video' in it as default. If you click on the drop-down arrow beside it, you will see in the list 'Color'.

Once you insert the black matte, it will take the default duration set in your File > Preferences > Edit > Default image/color clip duration. But you can vary this in the timline by highlighting the color matter and the pushing the yellow bar at its extreme right back towards the start of the timeline, if you want to shorten it, or pulling it to the right if you want it there longer.

Then, from the same drop down list where you found 'Color', go to Transitions > FX and choose Cross-Fade. Drag that between the black matte and the first video clip. And voila! You have a fade-in from black.

If however you want a fade-in somewhere during the video, depending how long you want it to be, either use just the Cross-Fade transition, with its duration set a little longer. Or else, if you want a full fade in from black, drag the black color matte to the spot before the video clip you want to fade in, add the cross fade transition, and again you have what you want.

Fade-out is the same, only in reverse. And if you want the very last video clip to fade out, you can use either cross-fade or another transition called fade to black, though you will still need a color matte at the end as transitions cannot 'dangle' without something before and after it.

[sjj1805]

Here it is in pictures:
How to fade into the first video Clip or out of the last video clip