Let's increase the frame rate of a video strip so that the effects we add to it will be smoother. Then we'll take a look at the effect strip options and consider a case of why we would want to change them (and also see why we wouldn't!)
The stopwatch/timer images used in this video were made using a Blender Python script created by Mikeycal Meyers, and is available here:
https://github.com/mikeycal/vse-stopw...
Mikeycal has a great set of tutorials for Blender 2.79. Here's a link to the playlist for his series:
• Blender Video Editing 2.7X Series