Day 20 - Sony Vegas - Keyframes and Transitions (2/2)

What I did:
Today, I continued to learn more about Sony Vegas but I decided to focus more on transitions today. Today, I put two clips back to back and I decided to test out some transitions. It's quite simple to add transitions in Sony Vegas and you do not need to create them like you did in After Effects. All you have to do is go transitions and then just drag them to where the clip ends or starts and voila, you have your transition, There is also a library of effects to choose from so you shouldn't have a problem selecting which one you want or you might have a lot of problems because a lot of them are great and there are too many to choose from.

The transition in video form (it happens at 23 secondsish):

What I learned:

Today, I learned how to apply transitions to your videos. It was quite simple. All you had to do was just drag and drop the transitions to the start or end of your clips. You can even decide how long you want the transition to last and how it affects the video. What I mean by "affects" is that if you're using a flash transition, you can decide how long you want the flash to last and you can also decide how bright or dim the flash is. 

1. First, I set up the clips and learned where the transition folder is, it right above the timeline at the bottom. 

2. Next, I saw the sheer amount of transitions available. There are so much more than this. As you can see, there are folders to left and each folder has quite a few transitions. I learned about dragging and dropping in this section as well.

3. After that, I learned about editing the transition and I'm not just talking about how long it is. I am talking about editing the amount of distortion during the transition. After you add the transition, a panel opens up right in the middle and you can decide how much you want to edit it, it's pretty straight forward. 

What I plan to learn tomorrow:

Tomorrow, I plan to learn how to slow down and fast forward a clip. I want to learn this because it can add a comedic effect to a video. I also want to know how people do the timelapse in TV shows and movies, where a camera is just recording a city in the same place for hours but they speed it up to show the cars moving and the time of day changing. I think this will be a good thing to learn tomorrow. I knew how to do this on Movie Maker but I do not know how to do this on Sony Vegas yet  and that's what I plan to learn tomorrow.