DARA’S GUIDE: How to "FADE" Characters

Is it just me or the command (@CHAR moves to layer #) doesn’t work?

Are you using “CHARACTER enters from”?

No I just used the command, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Thanks for responding anyway, but it’s working now <3

This seems easy, but how do a change a background to an overlay? I don’t know any editing apps that allows me to do that. Do you know any apps that could change my background to an overlay?

Also, how do you fade in the character?

U upload it as overlay instead of background an u change file type to png

I did that already, but I’m trying to find out how to fade the character into the scene. This is what I have so far:

INT. KAMILAH BEDROOM- DAY

@zoom reset

@cut to zone 2 AND zoom on 496 383 to 192% in 0

music music_stringpluckbeat

@MIRANDA changes into Miranda_lounge

@MIRANDA spot 1.007 160 164 in zone 1 at layer 3 AND MIRANDA faces right AND MIRANDA is idle_read_book

MIRANDA
(Kylie Jenner is so interesting these days.)

@pause for a beat

@MIRANDA is eyeroll_subtle

MIRANDA
(Not.)

sound phone_ring

@MIRANDA is read_phone_shocked

MIRANDA (talk_think)
(An | italic | unknown number | reset |.)

@pause for a beat

@MIRANDA is listen_phone_sigh

music off

MIRANDA (talk_phone_sad_loop)
Ummmm who is this?

sound swell_eerie

@MIRANDA is startled_surprised

@pause for a beat

sound thud

MIRANDA (talk_afraid)
Kamilah?

How would I fade another character into the scene?

Oh you want them to fade in instead of fade out?

Yes!

My bad :sweat_smile: I don’t rlly know this try to pm the author of this topic maybe she knows how

Okay well thank you anyways haha

Yw :sweat_smile::joy:

Just change the opacity to 1 in however many seconds. Pretty much just the opposite of the 2nd example.

Like this:

INT. KAMILAH BEDROOM- DAY with KAMILAH ROOM at layer 2

@zoom reset 

@cut to zone 1 AND zoom on 191 367 to 172% in 0 

@MIRANDA changes into Miranda_lounge

@MIRANDA spot 1.017 155 158 in zone 1 at layer 3 AND MIRANDA faces right

@KAMILAH changes into Kamilah_sleep

@KAMILAH spot 0.990 245 169 in zone 1 AND KAMILAH moves to layer 1 

@overlay KAMILAH ROOM opacity 0 

@MIRANDA is idle_terrified AND KAMILAH is idle_sad

@overlay KAMILAH ROOM opacity 0 in 1

Sorry got confused. Thought you wanted to fade out. Ignore what I said about setting the opacity to 0 at the beginning

So all you need to do is just have your character at a lower layer than the overlay, then just change the opacity to 0 in the number of seconds you want.

Would you mind showing me an example on how that would look?

INT. BACKGROUND - DAY with BACKGROUND OL at layer 0

&CHAR stands screen center

@CHAR moves to layer -1

@overlay BACKGROUND OL opacity 0 in T

The “T” represents the time. You can change this to any number you want and this determines how long it takes for character to fade in. Make sure the character is at a lower layer than the overlay.

What is the name of the app you used to make the background invisible?

Have you read the story “Confessions of a 40 years old bad boy” ?
Can you tell me how she did the intro? I’m just curious of how many overlays did she put.

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Tag @HannaKM :slight_smile: , she’s the author

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