Day 21 - Sony Vegas - How to change the speed of clips

What I did:
      Today, I slowed down and sped up my own video clip. I did not know how to do this initially because I've never needed to do this but I thought this would be a new thing I could learn to incorporate into my videos if I want to in the future. I also did this in a few different ways and I'm actually surprised there is more than one way to do this. Normally, After Effects is the only other video editing software I know that can do things in multiple ways but Sony Vegas does it too.

1. First, I added a clip into the timeline. This is my own clip from the video game: Destiny.

2. Then, I held down the "CTRL" key and went to the edge of the clip where you can stretch it out. By holding "CTRL" you can make the video faster or shorter depending on what you do. If you hold down the control key and move it forward to stretch it out, the video slows down. If you move it to the left, it gets faster. There is a limit to how fast you can make this. 

What I learned:

Today, I learned a lot about speeding up and slowing down in Sony Vegas. Back in 2012, I used the peasant editing software known as Windows Movie Maker 2.6 and the time editing on that made it so you had to clip on a clip and change the speed of it by going to the options. However, in Sony Vegas, I learned how you can easily do it by holding "CTRL" and dragging the clip in whichever way you choose. However, I learned that there is also another way to do this and it is very interesting.

1. First, you right-click on your clip and select "Insert/Remove Envelope" and then go into the subcategory and select "Velocity." This will allow you to change the pace of the clip.

2. After you do that, a green line appears on your clip in the timeline. I learned that this is what you use to pace your clips. 

3. Finally, you can double clip on the green line to sort of "split" the clip at that position. This allows you to edit the pace of the video at that point. For example, you can move the green line up on the left end of the split and move the right end to the bottom. Moving the line up means that the clip goes faster there but moving it down means the clip goes slower. 

The last thing I learned was that using this second method to adjust speed can mess up the sound of the clip. In the first one, you are changing the speed of the whole thing but in this, you are just changing sections, so to get the sound back on track, you must also adjust it.

What I plan to learn tomorrow:

Tomorrow, I plan to learn something really cool. I plan to learn about motion tracking and motion tracking text in a video. This effect is used in a lot of montages and is my first step towards creating my final project. This makes it look like your text is sticking to a wall while the rest of your image is moving. So you can be zooming out, but your text will be "ingrained" into the wall. That is what I plan to learn tomorrow.