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With my first use of iMovie for iPhone 4 I noticed that something was missing. While they offer you a choice of two transitions that can be used between clips in your timeline, they offer you no way of fading from or to black on either end of your project. This got me thinking, since you can import photos, as well as videos, from the camera roll all I need was a photo of pure black to activate a transition. Instead of getting up off the couch and creating a black image file on my computer and syncing it with my phone, I simply tapped the camera button in iMovie, turned the flash off, held the lens of the phone’s camera firmly against the couch cushion and snapped a photo. What I got was a frame of pure black.

I moved that photo to the beginning of the timeline. At this point you can adjust the handles to determine how long you want that photo to display. Once you add the photo to the front of the timeline it automatically adds a tradition after it. For a simple fade from black, you can choose ‘Cross-Dissolve’. To have your movie fade-out, simply move that image to the end of the project and adjust accordingly.

This technique can mean the difference between this..

And this..