Sony Vegas - Blurred title effect

Blurred/sharpened titles in vegas


The outcome:

Open up vegas and a new video track. (right click the section under the time code > new video track)

Next highlight about 5 seconds on your video track > right click > insert generated media and select the sony text plug in, click add and click ok. This can be done with insert text media but for this tutorial we are just going to use a simpler pre rendered version.

Now what you are going to want to do is enter your desired text in the space provided and select the size, font etc. Exit out of that window to your original screen. Right click on your generated media which should now be present on your timeline and click on Media FX.

You are now going to want to select the plug in, for this we are going to be using the Radial Blur, you can experiment later on with other blurs etc, to get your desired effect. But for now go ahead and click on radial blur (it should be in the 2nd column at the bottom). Now just as before click on add and ok.

A box should have popped up now, this is where most of the actual titling happens. Select fixed radius and go to the first keyframe at the beginning of the keyframing timeline (if its not there then just click to the start and click on the little + at the bottom to right of the box)

Now shoot the strength bar all the way to 1.000 (full) for the first keyframe, you can play around with the direction which the blur comes on from the box to the left. After you've done that go to the end of the keyframing timeline and create a keyframe lower the strength to almost zero here and change the direction of the blur. Go to about 2 seconds place a keyframe, don't touch the strength (you can if you want, but for now don't) and change the direction of the blur.

Now exit, rewind it back and play it.
If you happy, render it.

You can then enter rotation, changing of texts, colors and a whole palette of effects.