How to slowly fade in and out? And Cut-Scene Help

Hey sorry if this is explained somewhere already if it has please just put a link to it, I've been searching a bit but I dont want to spend hours looking for how to do something so small..

And I'm also not sure where to put this so just move it to the proper spot if thats not to much trouble..

I'm using RMXP
Basically, I want to go from one map and after a character is saying something slowwllyyy, fade out (maybe like over a five second period) and then again slowly fade in to a new map.

The new map will be starting with a cut-scene , so is there a script or way to event a scene where a bit of the top is black and a bit of the bottom is black? So the only visible area is the middle in a rectangle?
And can you make it so when the scene starts, the two black areas at the top and bottom slowly come into there positions and leave the visible rectangle visible in the middle, and then when the scene ends they slowly make there way out of the screen?..

I used to use rmxp a longggg time ago and now even the simplest things seem like a lot of trouble to me ..
Thanks

Well, for the black bars, just use the Show Picture and Move Picture commands. Since you want them to move in, all you need to do is have one picture that is a black rectangle as wide as the screen and as tall as you want. Then you'd show two pictures - both with x = 0 and one with y = 480, the other with y = -1*(height of picture). Then you would just use the Move Picture commands - moving the bottom one up (to 480 - height of picture) and the top one down (to 0).

For the fade in, use the Change Screen Color Tone command. To fade it out, just set it to black (-255, -255, -255) and make it take 100 frames (there are 20 frames in a second). To fade it back in, just set it to regular (0, 0, 0) and make it take 100 frames

Cool all done thanks for the help 

One minor correction: There are 40 frames per second. 200 frames is 5 seconds.

I thought it was 60? 300 is 5 seconds. Positive.

haha either way i got it done . I just use trial and error to get it right for simple things like this

40 frames per second if the player uses smooth mode, but the default is 20 in RMXP. It's 60 in RMVX

Ah.
That's how the confusion arose. I understand.