Leo:Blender

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Blender is a great tool for video sequencing among other things.

This is a wiki of my notes.

Video tutorials


My notes

Initial Setup

Properties Section

  • Start Blender
  • Select View layout to Video Editing
  • If you see graph Editor, replace it with Properties window (with "drop-up button")

Properties

Dimensions

  • Change the preset to your format, e.g. HDTV 720
  • Check the Resolution
  • Check the Frame rate. E..g. 30fps for youtube (should match the source video).

Output

  • Check the location of the output file
  • Set File format (e.g. H.264 or Xvid)
  • Select RGB (for color)

Encoding

  • Set preset to the same video format
  • Bitrate: 6000 is ok
  • Select Audio Codec (e.g. AAC or MP3)

Timeline Section

Playback menu:

  • + Audio Scrubbing
  • + AV Sync
  • + Frame dropping

Save as defaults

  • Menu -> File -> Save Startup File

Sequencer

  • Right click selects a stream
  • Box select: Press B, then draw a rectangle over the target strips


Meta Strips

Make meta strip:

  1. Select multiple target strips (with box select)
  2. [Ctrl+G] Sequencer-Menu -> Strip -> Make Meta Strip