Lengthening fade to black in iMovie on Mac

Hi,

Double-clicking on the Fade to Black transition, and increasing its duration in the pop up box, should lengthen the fade.

In any event, you can put your clip in the upper timeline over a black background. When you place your cursor on the clip, fade handles will appear at the upper corners. You can slide the handle to create as long a fade as you want. Sliding one handle will also move the handle at the other end of the clip, thus imparting fades at the beginning and end. To make the sliders act independently of each other, hold down the Option key while moving the slider.

-- Rich

Try deleting preferences by opening iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears.

Also, try creating a new project and see if the fades work better there.

— Rich

Sometimes one needs to resort to another app. The Keynote app should be on your Mac, in the Applications folder. Put your clip into Keynote and use the Fade and Scale build out function, with the scale set at 100%. There is a duration slider where you can set the duration of the fade for a smooth fade out.

-- Rich