something is up that won't allow me to do that - i've tried - i've entered different times and played with the settings in the transitions menu. i must be selecting something the wrong way - mysteriously, when i opened imovie this time, the fade-to-black clip was up to 1.3 seconds - a time amount that i never entered - but we're approaching 2 seconds little by little....which brings me hope.
i wonder : when i select it one way, the fade-to-black is encased by a yellow box, another way, it's a blue box - i can't drag it in either form, but maybe there's another way?