Day 19 - Sony Vegas - Keyframes and Transitions (1/2)

What I did:
Today in Independent Studies, I learned how animate and use keyframes.I also added a gausian blur in the animation itself. So, basically what I did was I added a text layer(with my url obviously ;)) and then I decided to keyframe it. I made sure the first, 2 seconds or so were the seconds of the text when the text would be moving and since, I wanted to give  it a speedy effect, I also added a gausian blur so it has a speed effect. However, the actual video itself has the speed effect slowed down a lot and think it's because the 2 seconds I spent are way too long for it to be effective but nonethe less here it is.

The Video:

What I learned:

Today, I learned some really helpful things in Sony Vegas. I learned about Keyframes and animating and also a little about transitions. I learned that after effects is easier with keyframes and animating but Sony Vegas just reigns supreme at everything else.

1st. I created a text layer above my video layers. 

2nd. I went to "Video Fx" and it gave me this panel. This panel allows me to move text and animate it through keyframes. I learned that you can use keyframes in this. 

3rd. I learned you can move text by moving the text layer to the side and inserting a keyframe and then moving it back. It is really helpful and you can view it later too. 

4th. Next, I learned about transitions and effects. I added a speed effect in that I gave a part of the layer a gausian blur. I only applied it to the part where it is moving so it looks like its speeding. I learned that you can add these effects just by dragging them into the layer.

What I plan to learn tomorrow:

Tomorrow,  I plan to learn more about the transition aspect of this. Today, I mainly just focused on the keyframe and animating aspect of sony vegas. I still need to do more transitions. Transitions in that how the clips change instead of just a jump to the next. I normally do fade transitions but I would like to learn how to do other ones such as a clock transition or a pixel transition just for future reference and maybe for the montage that I plan on making in June. My goal for tomorrow is to focus on transition.