Premiere 6.5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Fading and Keying

You can superimpose clips in higher tracks over clips in lower tracks using two methods, known as fading and keying.

Fading blends an entire clip with the clips in lower tracks (Figure 13.3). Fading can look similar to a cross-dissolve transition. With fading, however, it’s easy to blend entire clips together, not just transition between them. And unlike a cross-dissolve (which occurs between two adjacent clips), you can fade multiple layers of clips at once.

Figure 13.3. Fading a clip blends it with the clips in lower tracks.

Keying makes only certain parts of a clip transparent. The terms key and keying refer to their physical ...