Difference between revisions of "Video-Editing-using-Blender/C2/Introduction-to-Blender-video-editor/English"
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* Added a video to the sequencer panel | * Added a video to the sequencer panel |
Revision as of 16:33, 2 June 2020
Visual Cue | Narration |
Slide Number 1
Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on Introduction to Blender Video Editor. |
Slide Number 2
Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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Slide Number 3
Learning Objectives |
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Slide Number 4
System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
A working internet to download Blender. |
Slide Number 5
Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Slide Number 6
Code Files |
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Slide Number 7
Chapter link |
The Download link for Blender is shown here. |
Open web browser. | Open any web browser and go to the given blender download link. |
Cursor next to Download 2.82a. | The current release is 2.82a. |
Cursor next to Download 2.82a. | When you practice this tutorial, the version number may be different. |
Click on Windows, macOS and other versions link and hover over the options. | Click on the pull down as seen.
Notice the downloadable files for many operating systems. Here, we can also see the source code for blender. |
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Download and install on Windows 19 OS |
Now, let’s Download and install Blender on Windows 10 OS. |
Choose Windows Portable (.zip) option. | I will choose the windows Portable (zip) file installer. |
Show the downloading file message. | The download may start automatically in some systems. |
Show a clip of save file dialogue box. | If a dialogue box opens, choose to the Save File option and click on OK as seen here. |
Show the completed file download icon. | Allow the file download to complete. |
Open the file manager. | Open the file manager. |
Go to the Downloads folder. | Go to the Downloads folder.
The file is downloaded into this folder for me. |
Select the fileblender-2.82a-windoes64.gz . | Right click to open the context menu.
Select the zipped file and right click on it, to open the context menu. |
Click on Extract All. | Click on Extract All.
An Extract all dialogue box opens. |
Click on Extract. | I will retain the default folder and click on Extract. |
Cursor in the screen. | The process takes a minute or so and we can see the progress.
Allow the process to be completed. |
Cursor on the blender-2.82a-windoes64 folder. | Notice the extracted blender folder in the downloads folder as seen here. |
Go to the blender-2.82a-windoes64 folder. | Enter the newly created blender folder. |
Again Go to the blender-2.82a-windoes64 folder.
(Add annotation: Some users will not need this second step of entering the folder). |
Again, enter the blender directory in the folder. |
Cursor on the blender application file. | Notice the blender application in this folder. |
Double click on the blender application file. | The program is already compiled for you.
Double click on the blender application file, to open the blender interface. |
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Download and install on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS |
Now, let’s Download and install Blender on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS |
Click on Download Blender 2.82a. | Click on the Download Blender 2.82a link seen in the blue color box. |
Show refreshed page with dialogue box. | The page refreshes and a save file dialogue box opens. |
Choose the Save File option and click on OK. | Choose the Save File option and click on OK to download the file. |
Show download completed icon. | Allow the download to complete. |
Open the file manager. Go to Downloads folder. | Open the file manager and go to the Downloads folder.
My downloaded file is in the downloads folder. |
Cursor on blender-2.82a-linux64.tar.xz file. | Notice the downloaded blender file with xz extension.
Let’s open a terminal, extract the files and open the blender interface. |
Press Ctrl+Alt+T . | Open the terminal by pressing Control, Alt and T keys together.
A terminal opens. |
Type cd Downloads and press Enter. | Change the directory to the Downloads folder. |
Type tar -xvf blender-2.82a-linux64.tar.xz and press Enter. | Type the command as seen here to extract the files.
Press Enter to execute the command. |
In the Downloads folder, Hover mouse on blender-2.82a-linux64 . | The files are extracted to a new directory as seen here. |
Press Ctrl+L.
I will clear the screen for clarity. | |
Type, cd blender-2.82a-linux64 and press Enter. | Enter the newly created directory by using the cd command as seen here. |
Type, ls and press Enter. | Type ls to list the files in the directory. |
Scroll up and show the blender file. | Scroll up and notice the Blender file. It is already compiled for you. |
Cursor next to blender file. | For me, the listed files are color coded.
Here, the green color for me indicates that, the blender file is an executable. |
Slide Number 10
Change to Executable File >chmod u+x blender |
If you have a non-executable file, please use the command as shown here.
This will change it to an executable file. |
Press Ctrl+L. | I will clear the screen for clarity. |
Type ./blender and press Enter. | In the terminal prompt type dot slash blender.
Press Enter execute the command and open the program. |
Show blender interface. | The blender interface opens.
Let’s change the interface appearance and colors. |
Click on Edit, Preferences. | Click on Edit, Preferences.
The blender preferences dialogue box opens. |
Click on Themes. | Click on Themes, seen on the left side frame. |
From the pulldown on top right, choose blender light. | From the pulldown on top right, choose blender light.
The interface changes to a lighter shade. |
Click on the x sign. | Click on the x sign on top left to close the dialogue box. |
Click on File, New, Video Editing. | Click on File, New in the top menu. |
Hover cursor on the 4 options. | Here, We can see many options.
2D animation, sculpting, VFX and video editing are four working modes in blender. |
Click on Video Editing. | Click on the Video Editing option. |
Show changed interface. | The interface changes to the video editing mode. |
Cursor on the interface. | Let’s choose a video file to edit. |
Cursor on the folder and the /home/ in the left panel. | Panel on top left, is a file browser to browse through files and folders.
It is in the user home directory now. |
Scroll down and select the Videos folder. | I have downloaded and saved the input file in the Videos folder.
Scroll down and select the Videos folder. |
Double click to change directory to Videos. | Double click to change directory to Videos. |
Show the file firstvideo.webm. | My input video is a webm format video file. |
Select firstvideo.webm . | Select the file. |
Left click, hold and drop the icon on the sequencer panel. | Left click, hold and drop the icon on the Sequencer panel in the bottom.
The sequencer panel has many channels. |
Cursor on the video and audio strips on the sequencer. | The video gets added to a channel in the sequencer panel.
You will see two strips. The blue strip is the video part. The green strip is the audio part of the video. |
Hover cursor on the Preview panel. | Notice that, we can also see a preview of the video in the Preview panel. |
Left click, hold on the zoom plus sign in the preview panel. | To adjust the zoom level in the preview panel, do the following.
Left click, hold on the zoom plus sign seen on the right side of the preview panel. |
Show zoom in and zoom out. | Use the mouse scroll wheel to adjust to desired zoom level. |
Left click, hold and move the video in the preview panel. | To move the video, click and hold the palm sign on the right side.
Then move the video in the preview panel. |
Place cursor on the time position number, on sequencer panel and left click. | Place the cursor on the numbers at the top of the sequencer panel.
Then left click. It shows the time position in the video. |
Press Ctrl+T. | Press Control and T keys together.
This toggles the time information to the frame number. |
Press the space bar. | Let’s play the video for a few seconds.
Press the space bar to play the video. |
Video is seen playing in the preview panel. | The video plays on the preview panel. |
Press the space bar. | Press space bar again to stop playing the video. |
Hover cursor next to the Video editing and Rendering workspaces. | Notice the Video editing and Rendering workspaces or tabs on the top menu. |
Hover cursor on the settings panel. | On the right side, notice the settings panel. |
Cursor on the settings panel. | We can change the output settings here.
Let’s save the project. |
Click on File, Save. | Click on File, Save to open a save dialogue box. |
Choose Videos folder and type filename firstproject. | I will save the files in the Videos folder and type firstproject for filename. |
Click on Save Blender File. | Click on please narrate the position of this buttonSave Blender File.
It is seen at the lower right side for me. |
Click on File, Quit. | Click on File, Quit to quit Blender. |
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Summary 11 |
Now let’s summarize. In this tutorial, we
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Summary 12 |
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Assignment 13 |
For assignment activity, please do the following.
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
We conduct workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates.
Please write to us. |
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Forum for questions |
You will have to register to ask questions. |
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Forum for specific questions |
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Acknowledgement |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India. |
This is Rani from IIT, Bombay. Thank you for joining. |