Fade to Black Without Affecting Audio

This seems like a painfully stupid/simple question but I can't figure out how to fade a clip to black whilst maintaining the same audio level. It seems apply fade to black also fades the audio.

Hi
In older versions of iMovie - one Extracted Audio - then applied Transition - then fine tuned the audio.
In iMovie'09 and 11 - Extract Audio also works
Apple/File/Edit/Cut ---> Down here to 14:te row - Extract Audio or Separate Audio (iM'11)
Then apply Transition
Then as the Rubberband function now is restored (in way off) - fine tune the Audio ends.
Not using iM'11 - this is mostly based on Guessing and looking/testing into iM'11.
(in iMovie HD6 and FinalCut this is much more in control)
Yours (Hope it works) Bengt W

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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:35:03 -0700
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Subject: Is it possible to add reverb to vocal mic, without affecting my keyboard sound?
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