you should be fine with what you outline..

for your 6 second clip, make the 6 second title clip and add a 3 second
simple black image.... overlap the two by the 3 seconds and the title will
fade to black over the 3 seconds.
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"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Real newbie questions: My business associate records video footage on a DV
> camera for later assembly into an educational course. The scenes are shot
> totally at random. He would like to pay my teenage daughter to transfer
> the video from DV to the hard drive (AVI format) and then clean up each
> individual clip. The edited clips will be returned to him on a removable
> hard drive.
>
> 1) How do you permanently edit a clip? (As I understand it, the crops and
> fades in the time line are non-destructive.)
>
> 2) Will there be any degradation of the DV quality by virtue of having
> edited the file in WMM?
>
> 3) Is there any reason the edited files will not be compatible with Adobe
> Premiere, which is the program presently being used to assembly the final
> video?
>
> and unrelated...
>
> 4) How do you create a clip that, for example, displays a title for three
> seconds and then fades to black for three seconds (the total clip is six
> seconds)?