Animating Effects with Per-Parameter Keyframes in Sony Vegas Pro 11

One of the handiest little tricks to know about Vegas is that if you double-click on the slider, on pretty much any slider, any control, and any plug-in in Vegas, it will revert back to whatever the default setting is. Now, many times that's a zero. In the case of line-spacing, it's 1 because we're at a single line space. In most of your parameters, the default is going to be 0 or some low number.

Keyframing a Third Text Parameter

So let's click on Line Spacing, and we've added a new envelope, a new rubber band here, and we'll do the same thing. We'll double-click to set our second keyframe to be the same as the first because we don't want the effect to start until after the previous effect in tracking (Figure 15). Now, you can choose anything that you want, but for the purpose of our example, to explain how this works, this is how we're doing this.

Setting the line-spacing animation to begin after the tracking animation stops

Next, let's manipulate our Line Spacing slider. You can get kind of creative with it. You can add as many keyframes as you want. And finally, we'll wind up back at square one (Figure 16). So let's do a Shift+B RAM Render here and see what that looks like. As you can see in the video tutorial clip at the top of the page, when you add all these keyframes, you'll have a lot going on.

More than enough line spacing keyframes

So the next time you pull up a plug-in, be it a video effect, a filter, a titling tool, I recommend you click on the Animate button and just try out a few things. Take a few minutes on each one of those parameters and see what you can come up with. Experiment, be creative, and I'll see you next time.