My character appears during fading scenes

I don’t know what I did wrong while writing the script but somehow my character and the background like to appear after the fade during the scenes are changing. Sorry for my bad english but hopefully someone understood what my issue is and is able to help me. :slight_smile:
It would be nice if you could leave a working example of a script with fading scenes with characters shown after.
Thank you :slight_smile:

Part of my script wich doesn’t work:

  NARRATOR
Oh sure... lets go!

@FIRSTNAME starts admire_happy

@transition fade out black in 3
@pause for a beat

INT. LUXURY PENTHOUSE BEDROOM - DAY

@FIRSTNAME stands upscreen right in zone 3

@pause for a beat

@transition fade in black in 3

@pause for a beat

@pan to zone 3

You shouldn’t set a pause behind a fade. The fade is a progress, which ends when the chosen time is out, so when you set a pause in it, the fade is coming, but because of that I can’t stay black.

Thank you so much <3 It’s working now

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If you want it to stay black for some time you should use a completely black overlay with the size of one zone, then you can make a fade and let it stay in the fading color.