autofade
nounEtymology From auto- + fade.
1
Any feature (of a camera, audio mixer, etc.) that fades automatically.
- This automatically halts the autofade and returns control to the manual fader.1974, Willard F. Bellman, Lighting the stage: art and practice:
- One of the nicest enhancements on today's cameras is a circuit for fading to black at the end of a shot — autofade.1986, John Melville Bishop, Home video production: getting the most from your video equipment: