Cut to black
Watch as an animation →Cut the picture to black abruptly in the middle of a scene to leave shock or a lingering aftertaste. Unlike a fade, which darkens slowly, it changes in a single frame.
Right after a decisive line or sound, just before a twist, the last cut of a video.
There is nothing special to put in the generation prompt. In the edit, cut before the action ends and add black with tpad=stop_mode=add:stop_duration=1.5:color=black. Cut the sound on the same frame too and fill with silence using apad=pad_dur=1.5.
Cut to black: stop a 5-second clip at 4 seconds right after the loudest hit, then hold 1.5 seconds of pure black and silence with no fade, picture and sound ending on the same frame: ffmpeg -t 4 -i in.mp4 -vf tpad=stop_mode=add:stop_duration=1.5:color=black -af apad=pad_dur=1.5 out.mp4. End the last shot mid-action.
The Sopranos finale "Made in America" (2007) — The diner scene suddenly ends in a black screen and silence, and many viewers thought the broadcast had cut out