Video-Editing-using-Blender/C2/Introduction-to-Blender-video-editor/English

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Title Slide

Welcome to the tutorial on Introduction to Blender Video Editor.
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Learning Objectives

In this tutorial, we will learn to,
  • Download and install Blender 2.82a on
    • Windows 10 OS and
    • Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS
  • Open the Blender interface
  • Add a video file to the sequencer panel
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Learning Objectives

  • Zoom and move the video in the preview panel
  • Play an excerpt of the video in the preview panel
  • Toggle time and frame number and
  • Save the project
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System and Software Requirement

To record this tutorial, I am using
  • Ubuntu Linux v16.04 OS
  • Firefox web browser v75
  • Windows 10 OS
  • Microsoft Edge 40 web browser
  • Blender v2.82a and
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System and Software Requirement

A working internet connection to download Blender.
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Pre-requisites

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Code Files

  • Files used in this tutorial are provided in the code files link.
  • Please download and extract the files.
  • Make a copy and then use them while practising.
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Chapter link

https://www.blender.org/download

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. Double click to change directory, to the newly created blender folder.
Again, Press enter to go to blender-2.82a-windows64 folder.

(Add annotation: Some users will not need this second step of entering the folder).

Double click on the folder to open the blender directory.
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.

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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 12

Now let’s summarize. In this tutorial, we
  • Downloaded and installed Blender on
    • Windows 10 OS and
    • Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS
  • Opened the blender interface
  • Added a video to the sequencer panel
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Summary 13

  • Learned to adjust zoom and move the video in preview panel
  • Played the video in preview panel
  • Toggle time and frame number and
  • Saved the project
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Assignment 14

https://www.blender.org/forum/

For assignment activity, please do the following.
  • Explore the Blender interface and
  • Browse through the Blender user forum in the given link.
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