 welcome. This video is part of series. Be sure to check out the link in the description of this video for the full playlist. We're going to be working with Blender 2.78 in this video and we're going to do some video editing. Just some basic stuff. Last video we looked at trimming clips and importing them. Today we're going to be looking at doing different types of fades. So I'm going to go up here and choose this drop-down and go into the video editor, also known as the sequence editor. And again I'm going to go to add and I'm going to go movie and I'm going to go to where I have this clips. And again I can choose up here to see the thumbnails of all these videos, make it easier to choose the videos I want. I'm going to place them at frame one, starting at channel one, and I'm not going to import the audio. I'm going to let change the frame rate of my project to match the videos and I'm going to click import or add movie clips. So there we go we have a few clips here. Now there's different ways to do fades and I'm going to show you one way today. So I'm going to grab this. So again I'm right-clicking and hitting G just like any other aspect of Blender is how that would work. And when I choose a video you can look off to the side here and again we have all these settings for this video and we're going to go over a lot of these in future videos but we're looking at today is the opacity. Opacity if you've worked with any type of video editing or photo editing is basically the transparency of a video. So if I was to take that and move it down half way you can see the videos now half transparent. If I move it all the way down it's completely transparent. Let's set that back to one which is the maximum size. You can also lock it in if you want to make sure that clip doesn't change you can click that there. But what I want to do here is I want to fade it from black and then at each video fade them. So I've overlapped the videos here so I'm just going to go to about here and I'm going to hover over here and just like any other aspect of Blender I'm going to hover over there and hit I and I set a keyframe. Then I'm going to come here and I'm going to hit I again and then let's select this video. I'm going to come here and click I and we're just setting keyframes. I can drag down here and I can click here or wherever I want to start and hit I. Also you notice this gray line here that's because our project length is 250 frames but the videos combined in this configuration are 200 and are sorry 323. So let's go ahead and change this to 323 and oh I'm sorry that's where my timeline cursor was. Let's say it's a 333 which is one frame pass where we're at it looks like but that's fine because we're fading the black anyway and actually we're not fading the black. We're going to be fading the opacity out and pretty much all video formats that will be a black where there is no other video. So what we've done so far is we've set keyframes in certain videos at 100%. Now I'm going to go here to the beginning of this clip. I'm going to move this opacity down to zero and hit I. So now we've set keyframes and you can actually see our curve line here of where it's fading in from and let's go to the end of this video clip right here. Drag it down to zero and hit I and so now you can see where the video fades in and where it fades out. You can see the frames down here and if I was to come here and hit Alt A you can see it faded in from a transparency but again when we render out it will be black in pretty much all video formats in here it's going to fade to the other video. So let's go ahead and go to this video clip here and we've set our keyframes for the maximums so let's set the minimums. I'm going to drag this down and hit I and then I'm going to drag it and I choose here drag it down and hit I. So we're just setting keyframes and again anything that has a value in Blender can usually have keyframes set to it. I can also manipulate them up here. So again I have and I can control and scroll out or sorry just scroll out so scroll down scroll up we'll zoom in and out. I can click the here and I can hit Alt A to play. You see that it fades in and then in a second here it's going to fade out or fade to the next video and the next video is going to fade in and at the end it's going to fade out. Now you'll notice up here also that right now currently oops these videos are playing at certain frame rates and a second ago it was playing at about 17 frames per second which is at right now and then it went to 30 frames second you'll see when it loops around here it's playing at 30 frames second which it should be playing at. That's because the whole timeline is not cached so there's different things you can do to get this cached so and that's why I'm going to go over in future videos but note this frame right there that if it seems like it's playing so it's because it is there's two things you can do again we'll go over this in a future video which is making proxy videos which I've talked about in other video editors that and or caching more of the video so that is one way to do a fade in and out is to adjust the opacity so again let me go over that again real quick just as a review so I'm going to hit A a couple times so they're all selected hit delete then I'll go add movie I'm going to select whoops all these movies here and I'm going to say start at frame one no sound add clips there we go and then I'm going to grab them and I'll do it reverse this time just so you can see the difference I'm going to put the middle video over top and if I just want to fade this video I can put it here where I want to be at its maximum and I can hit I I can go to the beginning of this clip and drag that down to zero or type zero in there if I would like hit I so again we have key frames here if it fading as you can see in the preview window there then I can come here I want it at its max which is one so I'll hit I and I come here drag it down and hit I again so now I have my feds again control A to play again you can see that frame rate slow because it hasn't cached it yet but should be casting this part now although there's a max amount of RAM we have set aside for caching again we'll get into it I've talked about that in previous videos in Blender but we'll go over that more in the future tutorial yeah in the next video I'll show you another way to do fade effects so I do thank you for watching as always please visit films by Chris calm that's Chris of the cave there should be a link in the description of the video go ahead check that out also check out my patreon page patreon.com forward slash malex 1000 is linked to that in the description as well if you like to become a monthly supporter even dollar a month is appreciated can't do that I also have PayPal links on my website and as always I hope that you have a great day