Unit 23 –Section ao3 -guide to using Sony Vegas

Where we should be

By now you should have completed unit 23 ao1/2.This means you know what you are going to put where in your video. Remember, you must have actual video within your video you are making along with a soundfile. You must make sure that for unit 23 ao2 storyboard that you include the following information, as it demonstrates you’re planning:

  1. Titles
  2. Animation
  3. Transition
  4. Use of 2 soundclips, possibly a narration and a music clip
  5. Use of video
  6. Use of images
  7. Editing of sound by trimming
  8. Editing of video content by trimming
  9. Text formatting
  10. You must write somewhere on your storyboard that you plan to export your video and that you are going to compress your video when you export it so that it can be opened in a browser

Nb: Remember your video only has to be 30 seconds long but must show use of all the above features -If you are doing Media GCSE then you may wish to use the video content that you have created for this for your video

Using Sony Vegas for section ao3.Creating a starburst text effect for a title

  1. Open SV.It looks like this. We need to open media generator

SV will look like this. Select text

Then select cool text

Then what we are going to do is drag this into our SonyVegas work flow area

Left click select then drag down to the above area so it looks like below

Then we need to add effects to the text title.

Right click the grey box .Select media FX

Then select starburst media effect, then select ok.

Then this is the fun bit. You should then have the starburst media FX workflow open. That looks like this.

We are going to alter this workflow so that it produces a brilliant title.

Alter your starburst media FX workflow so it looks like this.

Then select video preview and it will then look like this

Which rather like me is rather cool

Edit the text so that instead of it saying cool it says -unit 23 your name

right click on work flow in vegas on title so that you can take it into edit mode

Select edit generated media

Then in edit workflow you will notice this

Simply type over text present to edit what text you wish to appear on your title slide

Once you have done this and in fact whilst you are doing this the text on your title will change

Tip-make sure that your text is around size 48 size

Eventually it will look like this –I hope you will agree that it looks cool

You only need a slide at front and at end of video introducing it.You will need to replicate the above for each slide you create. Once you get used to the Vegas work flow the built in effects become easy to understand.