Photo fade in and out

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Photo fade in and out

Hello everyone!

I am doing a video with a recording from a presentation I did and I am overlaying the slides from my PPT presentation. When I put a picture of one of the slides and I want it to fade out and show the video, when I do it it also fades in the beginning of the picture. Is there a way around this?

Here is a picture showing this. There is fade out and fade in, but I only want fade out. When I move one it affect both.

Hopefully someone has a response!

Thank you in advance and have a nice weekend.

With best wishes,

Losey

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on May 20, 2016 7:02 AM

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Answer 1

Losey Author

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May 20, 2016 10:11 AM in response to Rich839

I think I am not following you there. My process was:

Put a video on iMovie
Go to my PPT presentation and save all slide as PNG (there is an option for that)
Import the PNG (of each slide) to iMovie
Put each picture where I want in the movie

The problem comes with the first "slide" I wanted the video to start with the first slide and with the voice of the presentation and then fade and connect with the video again. The problem of not putting fade is that changing from a slide to a video is not very nice visually speaking.

But do not worry! It is only a minor issue so nothing to worry about.

Trimming the lead-in would just moves the lead-in to the non-trimmed part 😀

Losey

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Rich839

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May 20, 2016 9:44 AM in response to Losey

You might try updating your operating system to El Capitan, as iMovie 10.1.1 is designed for that system.

It might not work properly with Yosemite.

How were you able to get the fade lines at both ends of your still clip? I am not able to duplicate that with

iMovie 10.1.2 (latest version). I have fade handles for background audio clips but not for photo stills.

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Losey Author

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May 20, 2016 9:48 AM in response to Rich839

Thanks for the recommendation.

Actually it is not a clip it is just a PNG (photo). It was set by default that it faded both sides at the same time. It is supposed to allow you in any case! Anyways, I did not change anything, it was how the default settings were established. It is the second time I use iMovie so I have little to offer, sorry!

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Rich839

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May 20, 2016 10:01 AM in response to Losey

So, you created the photo slide in Power Point with the default fade-in and fade-out? If so, then you can try changing the default setting in that app before

importing the photo into iMovie.

You also could try trimming off the lead-in fade in iMovie to get rid of it.

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Rich839

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May 20, 2016 8:48 AM in response to Losey

I am not familiar with the version of iMovie that you are using. However, you should be able to add a fade-to-black transition between your still pic and your video to get the effect you want.

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Losey Author

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May 20, 2016 8:58 AM in response to Rich839

I know, weird right? I am using iMovie 10.1.1!

Have not been able yet but I will continue trying. Thanks anyhow!

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