Production Blog: Animating Titles


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Production Blog: Animating Titles 

In this editing session, I did the animation for my titles. I began the process in Sony Vegas Pro, but switched over to Premiere Pro. As I mentioned in a previous entry, I began formal training for Adobe Premiere Pro through my high school's Communications Technology class. I have recently completed the text animation portion of this training, luckily. I believe it is best for me to work within Premiere Pro in regards to title animation because of my lack of formal training in Sony Vegas. While I am familiar with Sony Vegas and have animated text with it many times, there is a bit of fuzziness in my knowledge, so to speak. I may be able to produce a good result, but I lack the actual knowledge of the tools that I am using to complete said task. From a professional perspective this is undesirable for a multitude of reasons: I am forced to complete tasks in limited ways, I am limited to the creative avenues I can explore because of my lack of expertise, and I cannot utilize many tools which may make my work more efficient or more aesthetically pleasing, to list a few reasons. I personally want to go the more professional route and complete this task with a full knowledge of the intricacies to what I am doing in case I need to make adjustments of any type in the future. While this may seem like an irrelevant thought as I can most likely complete the same task in Sony Vegas with no issues, I believe that it is in my benefit. 

In Premiere Pro, I used basic keyframe manipulation to make my text slide, bounce, and move in any way that I would want it to. I used the graphics workspace, and the graphics panel located under it, to easily adjust the positioning of my selected text. This process was made a lot easier thanks to the "Align and Transform" menu added to Premiere Pro in its 2018 version, and helped me finish animating titles in Premiere Pro 2020. I mostly created sliding and bouncing text transitions, as I'd intended to in my Title Planning entries. The process went quite smoothly with no slip-ups or setbacks. I believe that the process took longer than it would have if I had used Sony Vegas Pro to do it but I am happy with my decision to use Premiere for the reasons I stated already. Also, though I am taking a formal class to learn Premiere Pro, it is still a new(er) program to me. There are now only a few minor adjustments that have to be made in terms of editing. Can't wait for the finished product!

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