 Again, we're working with Blender 2.788. This is part of a series. Be sure to check out the link in the description for the full playlist. And let's go ahead and get started. We're doing some video editing. In the last video, I showed you how to do one type of fades using opacity. Today we're gonna be looking at some effects we can add to do different types of fades. So let's go into our video editor, also known as a sequence editor. I'm gonna say add, I'm gonna say movie. I'm gonna go to my folder with my videos. I'm gonna click here to see thumbnails and I am going to select all these videos. I'm gonna say to start at frame one to use the frame rate of these videos for my project and I'm gonna uncheck sound because we don't need it for this video. I'm gonna say add strips. I'm gonna right click and I'm going to grab and overlap my videos like so. So what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna grab the first video by right clicking and then shift right click the next video. And then I'm gonna say add effect and I'm going to go to cross. So now we're gonna have a cross effect, a dissolve effect here. So there you go. You can see as I scroll through here, it goes from one video to another. I'm gonna right click this video, right click this video and I'm gonna say add effect to strip and I'm going to say cross. And again, it now cross fades those videos. Now, one of the benefits on this over opacity is opacity I set key frames on this clip. Let's say I want to adjust this clip and I grab it this way, you can see it automatically adjust and how far overlapping they are is how long the fade will be. Could be a good thing, could be a bad thing, depending on your project. So that's one thing. One thing you do need to look out for, I'm gonna delete these cross fades now. I'll move this back is you have to select your clips in the proper order. For example, if I right click this and then shift right click this and say add effects to a strip and say cross. Now it's actually gonna be fading from this video to this video since that's the video I picked first. So watch, I'm gonna go frame by frame. I'm going to zoom in here. You can just scroll to zoom in and out here on your video. And I'm gonna use the right arrows to go frame by frame, right and left arrows to go frame by frame through the timeline. You see, we have one video clip when we get to here, boom, it jumps to the second clip, fades back to the first clip and then boom, jumps back to the second clip. And that has to do with the order I picked the clips in. So that's important to notice. So you don't want to go from the second to the first clip and add the effect. You want to right click, right click, right click, shift right click and then add the effect that way. So that is the cross effect. Now you can also do this to fade to black or any other colors. So if we go to, I'm gonna hit shift left arrow to go to the first frame in my timeline and I'm gonna go add effect color and it automatically adds a black color here. So it's just a black clip which we can change any color over here. With it selected, I can come over here to strip effects and I can make it any color on the color wheel that I want. Let's go ahead and leave it at black. And I can right click that, shift click that, add and again cross. So it's the same thing. So now we'll be fading from black. So unlike the other one where it was fading, the opacity which is really making it transparent but would render out as black in most videos, you're actually fading from black. So if there was another video clip under this one it wouldn't affect it. And also again, you can do different colors. In the past I used to do wedding videos and lots of times it'd be nice to fade from white. Nothing else, it's a wedding, so white's nice. But you can do any color or even still images if you were to add an image which I don't have any ready for this tutorial but you can add an image that way. So that's the cross-fade effect. I do hope that you enjoyed this video. I hope you're enjoying the series. As always, I hope that you visit my website, filmsbychrist.com, that's Chris Decay. There should be a link in the description. And as always, I hope that you have a great day.