How To Use Blender As A Video Editor
Blender comes with a built in video sequence editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing as well as more complex tasks like video masking or color grading.
How to use blender as a video editor. Before you render your video save your project file save as at the top you should save the blend file in the same folder as the videos so even if you move your files elsewhere blender will be able to find the videos. In this video we kick off our series of tutorials focusing on using blender as a video editor. Setup the properties for your project. Welcome to my complete blender video editing tutorial series. With the green bar move at the beginning end.
Choose the video editing mode. We will cover topics like adding in videos and audio cutting strips slowing down or speeding up footage adding text and fonts adding photos adding stock footage color correction. The switch button is hidden in a pull down list it s not obvious and you can find it next to the main menu right after help. Our video will be saved as an avi file everything should be already setup correctly. You can also speed up and slow down a video or separate the audio from the video and change the audio speed solely using blender video editor.
Choose the video sequence editor from the pull down menu at the top of the window. In order to use blender video editor you need to change the default workspace to video editing manually. Live preview luma waveform chroma vectorscope and histogram displays. Click the context menu under the strip editor panel and change the panel to a properties panel. The first time you open blender studio you ll see its 3d animation creating interface.
The video editor includes. Now you should see all the video sequence editor controls. In this tutorial series you will get a complete overview of how to do video editing with blender.