fade to black?

[sammy]

hi. i am doing a animation and basically when i want it to come to the end of a scene i want it to fade to black. then fade into the next scene.

any ideas how to do this?

sorry im a newbie x(

sammy xx

[7feet]

Heres one quick way. First, go to the Display Quality button on the bottom right of the main window, and make sure the "Transparency" box is checked. Make a new vector layer, and make sure it is the very top layer in the "Layers" panel. Draw a rectangle that would fill the whole frame when you render, and fill it with solid black. Go to that layers properties, and set the "Opacity (%)" box to zero. The black will disappear. While this layer is still selected, go to the frame you want the fade to start. In the Timeline, find the line for Layer Visibility (holding the mouse cursor over the icons on the left side of the timeline will tell you which one is which, if you can't find it hit the "Settings..." button and make sure it's box is checked - it's in the 3rd column, 3rd row down). At the proper frame, right click over that line and insert a new keyframe. Go the the frame you want to have the fade all the way to black. Open up the layers properties again and set the "Opacity" to 100%. When you play the animation back, the black rectangle fading in will make everything else "fade to black". Just reverse the process for a fade-in.

[myles]

sorry im a newbie x(

Don't be sorry - newbies are welcome! For other newbies reading, it's always a good idea to go through the excellent tutorials in the help files first, to make sure your question isn't already answered in detail.

Brian (7feet) has given a great explanation of how to do fade-to-black within Moho.

Another possibility: If you're stitching your scenes together in a video editing application, as many Moho users do, have a look through its features - many video editors include a fade-to-black feature.

Regards, Myles.