Fade From B&W To Color With Full Color Text Animation Overlay

So, this is my first time EVER using any kind of serious video editing software. I'm doing it LEGALLY using the University Macs and the software that is installed on it. I'm a TOTAL novice at all of this. I think I'm biting off on more than I can handle, but hopefully somebody can help with this. I want a clip at the very beginning of the video to start with B&W video and fade into color at a specific point that corresponds with a point in some music that I'm using as the "soundtrack" so to speak. There will be a colored text animation that begins during the B&W portion and then that text will need to fade before the B&W video fades to color. I've been looking for as much information as I can about this. I've looked at youtube tutorials and step-by-step text tutorials (I prefer text with screenshots) on how to do this, but nothing that I find seems to accommodate everything that I'm trying to do here. If somebody would be so kind and patient enough as to humor a complete NOOB and walk me through this as though they're talking to a 12-year-old (I'm 37) who knows NOTHING about video editing, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

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