Film Fades

Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot has created a couple of film-like fade presets for After Effects.  You can see more about these at the link below.
http://www.videocopilot.net/presets/film_fade_transition/
As something of a cinephile, I really like the way Andrew's fades more closely resemble the way celluloid looks when doing it optically.  But it was something of a pain going into AE to create that look for every single fade in my project, even with the new "Replace with AE Comp" goodnes of CS4.  I wanted to see if I could recreate that same look in Premiere.
I succceeded.  Andrew's Film Fades are now available directly within Premiere.  Just download the Presets below.
(One note of instruction.  The Title Fade is based on a standard 5 second title.  If you apply it to a longer title, you will have to adjust the end set of keyframes.)

First: Thanks to Jim for bringing film fade into Premiere.
Second: For those who don't have After Effects or Premiere CS4 (or only have PPro CS4 for MAC), here's a starting point, the *direct* translation (AE to PPro) on what Andrew Cramer did in AE:
In PPro:
1. Apply the effects Levels and Tint to the clip you want to fade in.
2. Figure out how long time you want the fade to be.
3. At the time you want the fade to end, set keyframes, without changing any settings, for the following: Opacity (an effect that's always there), under Levels: "(RGB) Black Input Level" and "(RGB) White Input Level", and finally, under Tint: the "Amount to Tint".
4. Go to the start of the clip and set the following values:
For Opacity: 0%
For "(RGB) Black Input Level": 186
For "(RGB) White Input Level": 54
For "Amount to Tint": 35
5. Select all keyframes (at least start and end for each effect), right click on the last one and select Continuous Beziere.
For Fade Out, just set keyframes (unchanged values) for where you want the fade to start, and then put in the above values for where you want it to end (reverse procedure you may call it).
Now, I tested this in PPro 1.5, and one thing I noticed was that Tint doesn't have the same impact in PPro as in AE. Maybe I should try the same thing in PPro CS3, but not right now.
I wonder if maybe Dennis could do a test or two to see if the Tint effect works the same way in AE and PPro.
Anyway, as stated, the procedure above is a starting point.
Dag
PS! One could always play with the keyframe handles in order to make the speed-curves as one wants.

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    Sam Edwards

    Hi Nick
    Yes the files i'm using are .MOV files. according to Xilisoft they are HD .MOV files.
    although it may only claim there HD due to the high resolution. -1092x1080
    ok so i clicked more info on the file and it claims its codec is MPEG-4 video, AAC.
    I dont under stand that if there .MOV files then why would they have this codec?
    confused.
    Thank you

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