Adjusting the Fade In and Fade Out for the Soundtrack and Clouds

It will be a cool final effect to have the clouds fade to black after our super hero has flown out of the scene. We'll let the music continue to play over the black background (a great place to run end credits, if we were using them, by the way). Finally, we'll fade out the music at the end of the clip, and our project is over.

Select the Fade In and Fade Out Buttons

Click the ACB101.mov clip on the Video 1 track to select it.

On the Properties panel for the ACB101.mov clip, click the Fade In button so that the clouds and sky fade out.

Huh?

Yes, you read that right. You want to click the Fade In button so that the clip fades out. If you remember, we reversed this clip in an earlier task. By doing so, we effectively made the back of the clip the front, and the front of the clip the back. So to fade out the "back" of the clip (which is really the front, reversed), we need to apply a Fade In.

Click the supermusic.wav clip on the Audio 2 track to select it.

On the Properties panel for the supermusic.wav clip, click the Fade Out button under Volume so that the music fades out.