Fade butterfly effect to black

[beatlerat]

I am trying to fade a butterfly effect on my mega tree to black and am not having any luck.   I have tried layering using the color wash and it seems to have no affect.  I could use the fades for lots of effects so a little help here would go a long way.
Thanks

[flyinverted]

Many ways to do this.

The easiest way is to set Butterfly on a single layer and use the fade out option on the layer/blending window.

[beatlerat]

I have done that also, but I am not getting the effect.  I am missing something.  All I want is a simple fade out over 6 to 8 bars.  Do I need to create another effect...a second one, and fade that one out.  Would that mess up the continuity of the butterfly?

EDIT:   Got it.  Have to add a second effect then adjust it so that it blends in with the first effect.
Thanks

[flyinverted]

Not sure what you're doing but a single effect can fade to out (to black) by entering the time to fade in the fade field.   You can do the same by fading into effect.

[beatlerat]

Steve,
I wanted fade in, keep the butterfly effect going for a while, then fade out.   I tried using a single effect, but it did not give the desired effect.   So, on one line I put three butterfly effects, adjusted their time lines so that the motion was continuous (no jumps), then used the 1st one to fade in and the last one to fade out.   If this can be done using a single effect, I couldn't get it to work for some reason.  I will keep plugging away at it, but for now, I have what I was looking for.
Thanks

[Gilrock]

Yep there's a Fade In and a Fade Out box specifically for this purpose.  You gotta type in the number of seconds you want it to do each fade.  So lets say its an 8 second effect and you put 1 second for Fade In and 2 seconds for Fade Out that's what's it's going to do.  If you have a 1 second effect and put 1 second for Fade In and 1 second for Fade Out then yes you can get strange results.  You just gotta know what your doing and if it doesn't seem to be working Render it.

[flyinverted]

Here's a quick video of the 3 simple ways of many to fade an effect.

www.stevesimages.com\xlights4\fades.avi

[beatlerat]

Steve,
The link doesn't work.  Server not Found.

[Gilrock]

I got the link to work just change the slashes to lean the other way.
http://www.stevesimages.com/xlights4/fades.avi

[beatlerat]

Very nice.  Thanks.