How to add fade in and fade out effects to video with ffmpeg

One other thing I forgot to mention. When applying the fade effect to video, you can actually change the color of the screen the video uses to fade in/out with.


you just add a ":color=yellow" at the end of the filter, so it would look something like :


ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "fade=t=in:st=0:d=5:color=blue" out.mp4


This would use a blue screen instead of a black one.

the video helped me a lot, but it's almost impossible to see the code because its positioned behind the time bar and its purple on black.. 90% of the screen was unused after the first example. Please use an editor that isn't mixed with the terminal output for the sake of the tutorials. thanks bro

Thank you. Great guide.
I had a question. Through this "afade" the sound should be lowered to 50% and so on for 5 seconds and again raised to 100% through the "afade". How can this be done?

Excellent mate, thank's for sharing this!

Sir xfade is not working in my ubuntu.. Can you please suggest how to use xface it says " No such filter: 'xfade'".

thanks found this on your site but popped over to like it