On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 02:19:25 +1100, "Deloris Tucker" wrote:

>Premiere excells at making really simply things extremely hard to do. I
>spent a couple of long nights trying to locate it on warez groups, and after
>having finally found it ... I don't even use it. Fuck, I couldn't even
>figure out how to do a simple fade out (not between scenes).
>
>I went back to using VidEdit, the old 16 bit editor that came originally
>with VFW 1.1.

Heck, just put a "cross-dissolve" on the transition track,
lined up at the end with the end of your last clip, pull the
left side of the transition symbol back to make the fade out
as long as you want (with or without black leader in the
other track), and you have it! Double click in the task bar
line to bring up the purple task bar, pull the ends where
you want (including beyond the end, for black at the end
of the video [add copied audio track, with the audio "rubber
band" at zero to provide audio track under this tail]), and
hit the "enter" key to render and preview the result...
With a little basic knowledge of how things work in editing
programs, Premiere is very easy to use. Unfortunately, often
the essential basics are lost in manuals amid the complete
operating instructions (in the manual I wrote for our
turnkey DV editing systems, I started with how to [and how
not to...] turn the computer on - i.e., the REAL basics
that often get lost in manuals, but which people new to
these things may need to know).