The "fade from black" and "fade to black" are ubiquitous in film and television.

The "fade to black" and "fade from black" are ubiquitous in film and television.

For example, you can insert a quick dip to black (fade to black and fade back up again) into a shot at a point where you remove a section.

A slow fade to black and back up into a different scene suggests that more time has passed than in a quick fade.

(Fade up from black to bilingual Canadian Army logo.)

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After the world ends we flash back to Part 1 Justine.

1 Fade to Black (Live at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, Ca - 3/10/85)

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In these situations a video fade might be called a mix to black or something similar.

[This book] explores black hair, in all its untamed glory, from a man’s point-of-view.

Screen fades to black and the copyright and Canada wordmark appears.

A fairly quick fade to and from black could indicate a time lapse of a few minutes or hours, whereas a long drawn-out fade indicates a much bigger change.

Fade to/from black: A digital effect that fades up from black at the beginning of a clip or down to black at the end.

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