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Is there a way to add a "fade to black" effect to a video, from the command line?

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Mar 15, 202611511 views
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I have a script to encode videos (using mencoder), but is there a way to add a simple "fade out/in to black" from the command line, preferably free (as in open source). It could be either on Windows or Ubuntu Linux.

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A recent ffmpeg with the 'fade' video filter can do this. Unfortunately, the ffmpeg in the Ubuntu repos doesn't have filters enabled for some inane reason, so you'll have to get it from somewhere else (see here). To fade in from black, starting at f…

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