Blender for Video Editing: It's Surprisingly Good. Here Are Some Tips.

[@Allie-w1l]

I'll be watching this one more than once. Thank you! I'm not quite beginner on Blender, but brand new on Blender video editing, trying to link about two decades of camera video clips together into longer pieces. Your tips are very different from the first two videos that I watched, and some of them are more to the point for what I'm trying to do.

[@LinuxCreative]

@@Allie-w1l Thanks for watching!

[@Zombie_13x33]

I've always used blender for my edits but knew I used it in the simplest form lol. This helps alot.

[@LinuxCreative]

@@Zombie_13x33 thanks for watching!

[@PremierPrep]

Nice video! Been a LONG time since I used blender full time as an NLE. It's clearly come a long way

[@LinuxCreative]

Thanks for watching! Yes, it's gotten some small steady updates over the last few years that make it a lot more enjoyable to use.

[@1984npk]

Thanks from Japan, great overview!

[@LinuxCreative]

@@1984npk thanks for watching!

[@JustAPersonalUseBarb]

I never knew blender could edit video. That's kinda wild

[@LinuxCreative]

It does a pretty excellent job as a NLVE even!

[@myfavoritethings6433]

Sale here. I always used kdnlive 😮

[@Idolikethis]

This is SO helpful. Its been years and i still have a lack of intuition with vido editing on here. Even after creating some things on it.

[@LinuxCreative]

I hear ya! It can be a little difficult to "think in Blender" when it comes to editing.

[@jikkuatwork]

Exceptionally well explained, please keep doing more.

[@LinuxCreative]

Thank you for taking the time to share some encouragement! I'll do my best!

[@joysthokkins-onair]

Nice!

[@paulodekkers5075]

Thank you for the amazing tips

[@LinuxCreative]

Thanks for watching!

[@LinuxCreative]

I've got a few more big video projects in the works, so stay tuned! Here are some quick video editing tips while you wait.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Love it for basic video editing and I’m trying to use it for all my video editing, so these are some great tips on my quest. Main issue I still have is incorporating motion graphics in the video (for example an overlay) with any realistic rendering speed. I can do these things with premiere/after effects really fast, so I’m sure there’s a way…exploration continues. Thanks. 🖤🤙🏽 🎥

[@LinuxCreative]

@@ItsWesSmithYo I typically use scene strips for that and set them to display "material" preview. It can be pretty resource intensive though (realtime rendering a 3D scene vs a 2D comp in Adobe).

[@FinalMotion]

This was cool! You should show how you generate and work with proxy’s in VSE. Thanks for sharing

[@LinuxCreative]

Thanks for watching. I'll consider that!

[@Daily-Dirty]

New to making KZbin and Blender. Love the video, I prob have to watch it a few times and play around with Blender to get it. My thing is I am trying to add intro music to my videos, just have not been able to get that going. Sad thing is I have been in IT for 23 years, but ugh Linux is hard since I am hardware. I want to learn python, smh its very intense. Anyway, love the knowledge you are sharing brother, keep it up and I have subscribed.

[@LinuxCreative]

@@Daily-Dirty Thank you for the kind words and subscription! I have subscribed to your channel as well. I hope it continues to grow! - w

[@Daily-Dirty]

@@LinuxCreative Thank you as well. I will pass along to anybody wanting to learn Blender. Porb the best I have seen because its real. Dont give up on your channel, you have a gift.

[@maxmusterspace6037]

Would be cool to see a more complex example. I would like to make a shortfilm with some VFX. While there are a lot of tutorials for VFX and compositing, I couldn't find any that show the workflow in the Blender sequencer. How do I get multiple VFX compositions into the sequencer without rendering them into a file and import them.

[@LinuxCreative]

@@maxmusterspace6037 use separate scenes!

[@maxmusterspace6037]

@LinuxCreative Ah ok. Need to try that. thx.

[@maxmusterspace6037]

​@ Hmm, that didn’t work at all. I’m probably doing something very wrong here, and I’m not sure how this is supposed to work. Here’s my situation: I have Scene A with a movie on the sequencer timeline. I cut the movie twice, so now I have three separate clips. I want to edit one of these clips using nodes-for example, adding a greenscreen effect and a new background clip. Now my problem: Do I need to export that raw clip, create a new Scene B, and reimport it there to make the edits? That’s not what I want. I’d prefer to render everything only once instead of rendering small clips, reimporting them, and then rendering again. I can’t figure out how to take just a single clip, create a new scene to edit it, and have it stay linked to Scene A. Sure, I could import the raw footage into Scene B, but then I’d have to cut the movie twice, which isn’t an efficient workflow either. After experimenting a bit, I tried adding Scene B into Scene A. However, the strip stayed grey with no output at all. I tested both the Render Layer input (default) and the Movie Input Node. The Movie Input Node displayed something in the preview, but nothing showed up in Scene A. To clarify my idea: I want to have one "main" scene (Scene A) where the final cut is assembled. Then I want to use multiple smaller scenes to handle individual clips and composites, which are combined into Scene A-without needing to reimport or re-render. This way, I can quickly make edits or changes to the smaller scenes without having to rerender everything multiple times.

[@maxmusterspace6037]

I figured it out. Apperently I need to import the footage into blender first. Just using the file browser to drag and drop the footage into the timeline is different from importing it via the movie clip editor.

[@LinuxCreative]

@maxmusterspace6037 correct! I have created a plugin that sets up a compositor scene from any movie strip in the VSE to simplify this workflow and retain any audio track.

[@thelearningmachine5740]

I tried using blender for video editing, but i didn't like how it detaches the audio from the clip, I didn't like having to select both the video and audio tracks to move them around. Has anything changed regarding that, or was I doing it wrong?🤔 I only go there for minor animation or designing. Thank you for this video, it's great!

[@LinuxCreative]

This is still how it behaves. I think there might be an add on that fixes this: maybe Power Sequencer? If not there should be and maybe I'll work on it! I should do a deep dive on my editing process. There's just so much I want to share!

[@il4n-vse]

Strip linking is in 4.3! No addon needed :)

[@thelearningmachine5740]

@@il4n-vse I have to check that out!

[@gianfar4067]

i love blender and the updates for vse, but after using resolve i really can't turn back to it unless they add gpu acceleration. such a pain it exist on 3d rendering but not on vse 😔

[@LinuxCreative]

@@gianfar4067 agreed, but proxies make it workable.

[@icbfan7]

For tip #6, Pin Scene....I'm trying to understand the usage of the Layout tab in conjunction with the Video Editor? Why are you using the Layout tab? Can the 3D space be used/referenced in the Video Editor somehow? Or vice versa?

[@LinuxCreative]

@@icbfan7 Hi there! Thanks for watching. The short answer is yes! I often use the layout workspace to craft a "2D" animation using grease pencil or the like, then reference this scene in a scene strip in the VSE. This is how I create motion graphics (lines, circles, text, etc) to highlight things in my video edits. I should probably detail this workflow in a future video. Hopefully this helps!

[@icbfan7]

That would be a great video!!!!

[@KarelZweefvlieger]

it is a good editor especially for LINUX ( for me now it is davinci resolve )

[@tkna91]

Thanks for elaborating on Blender. I too am using Arch Linux and felt that there was no alternative solution to a video editor like FCP, which motivated me to give blender a try. what about Inkscape, is there any point in suggesting it in the context of Linux?

[@LinuxCreative]

Inkscape is a fantastic software that I use often!

[@CoffeeCode3D]

its unfortunate that seemingly no addon devs think this is worth adding to, its a nice simple editor but it lacks some basic features, like for example, no support for a video with transparency, it just doesn't read the transparent channel and renders it as black

[@LinuxCreative]

It's unfortunate that there hasn't been more progress there, but it's been my experience that the core Blender team has always been more interested in 3D features, and video editing is kind of second class.

[@oxiigen]

Long time Linux and Blender user here. I just found your cool channel. Do you plan to talk about AI audio tools on Linux too? I wish to explore AI tools on Linux lately, but there are many already available and not all that useful and easy to install i guess..

[@maximilianoproducciones4823]

muy bueno

[@LinuxCreative]

¡Gracias!

[@nostalgiagore]

Don’t. Use Davinci resolve or kdenlive if your a purist

[@LinuxCreative]

😂 This is a video about Blender!

[@resistan-y1h]

Davinch Resolve is paid software except for a free version with limited functionality. Blender is completely free and open source.

[@nostalgiagore]

@@resistan-y1h there’s so many ways to go over those restrictions though Blender’s vst is underdeveloped you can’t even reverse audio

[@nathanieloakleaves5789]

So? Are we supposed to be impressed that you like Blender for video editing or what?

[@LinuxCreative]

@@nathanieloakleaves5789 I'm a dad in my mid-30's... I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just sharing some tips with the community. Thanks for watching!

[@Idolikethis]

😂what a pathetic childish heart you have

[@EugeniaLoli]

Would be nice to get your blend file for download.

[@LinuxCreative]

As you wish! -w forum.linuxcreative.com/viewtopic.php?p=5#p5

[@EugeniaLoli]

@@LinuxCreative Thank you, I just tried it. The blend setup is really nice as you have it, very workable. The only problem is that Blender doesn't playback properly. On my laptop, the 1080p h.264 8bit file plays back at 3 fps. The file plays back properly (even without hardware acceleration) on Openshot, Shotcut and Kdenlive.

[@LinuxCreative]

I believe blender requires that you enable proxies and memory limits / prefetching frames instead of providing reasonable defaults. I believe these are all available in preferences, but can't quite remember and I'm away from my computer.

[@EugeniaLoli]

@@LinuxCreative Yeah, that's not serious in a modern editing environment. That's the stuff we had to do in early 2000s.