I need to insert a fade to black within a frame of footage.

I need to insert a fade to black effect within a frame of footage. The raw footage simply cuts to black, and I want to edit it so that it fades out within the same frame. Thanks for helping!

cass516 wrote:
this method sounds like a PAIN but of course i have no choice but to try it. Why would Pages make such a simple thing so troublesome? in other programs, you simply click 'insert file'.
The only thing odd about Pages' Insert file is that it doesn't do its own format.
You obviously think that MsWord is "The Norm" but I found really odd things that it won't do. To the point I, like others here, can't be bothered trying to drive the Word square peg into the Mac round hole.
Mostly Pages works by drag and drop, I'm puzzled why that doesn't work with the thumbnails. But then there are quite a few oddities in every program. Pages is far from an exception.
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