Scaling and moving a video

I want to have a video of me talking and make this video scale down in size and move to the upper left corner of the screen while it continues to play, and as it moves and scales down, it reveals still images and other video beneath it.
1.) Can anyone provide any info for doing this?
2.) Are there any issues with doing this?
Thanks.

yes, clips on tracks above will hide content below. You will set keyframes in the motion tab - open the clip form the timeline to the viewer, and go to the motion tab. Turn on wireframe in the canvas. Put your playhead at the starting point and set a keyframe in the motion tab for scale and position by clicking on the round buttons. Move the playhead to a new location and new keyframes will be created automatically when scale and move the clip in the Canvas.

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