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Anyone know a good intro tutorial for using Blender as a video editor like Premier?

by pitaj 5y ago

heartbreak 5y ago
Blender’s video editing capability is most useful as a replacement for After Effects. A free tool like Davinci Resolve is a better replacement for Premiere.
halfdaft 5y ago
I recommend looking into the Power Sequencer addon [1] that makes editing in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (VSE) a better experience. However, it's still pretty clunky so might be even better to wait for the upcoming VSE overhaul [2] [1] https://www.blendernation.com/2020/05/17/blender-power-sequencer-1-5-is-out/ https://www.blendernation.com/2020/05/17/blender-power-seque... [2] https://developer.blender.org/T78986 https://developer.blender.org/T78986
riidom 5y ago
I forget where I learned VSE, sadly, but came here to say that Blenders video editor is not so bad, if: a) You want to assemble only rendered footage. If you have real footage, well the greenscreen node is actually good, but for color grading DaVinci or Premiere are more advanced (though you can get a lot done in Blender here as well if you fiddle with the right nodes compositor). b) You can accept some limits wrt adding text overlays. There is no simple way of doing that like in P or DV. But: You can trick with preparing some .png's and fade these in and out (which works but limits you on the effects), or add the text during render, but that limits you on flexibility (someone needs a text change in last second, yay!). But I think you can go with basically any tutorial you find, it is not complicated in general. And a lot of your general blender knowledge transfers to VSE, which is a huge bonus in comparison to learn DaVinci or Premiere (which are monsters, crashy monsters).
riveducha 5y ago
I used Blender to edit a bunch of my YouTube videos and can’t really recommend it. (Using Kdenlive now and it’s OK.) Blender’s VSE is too unlike normal editing programs and the performance is bad as well. It makes your workflow more clunky for no gain unless you’re also mixing 3D scenes into your video. There are ambitious proposals to overhaul the VSE so hope might be on the horizon.
- fock 5y ago
  I can only recommend Cinelerra. It's much faster and more intuitive than any other thing I've found, everything is keyframeable (...) and some forks found their way into common distros (my one: Fedora). The guy also did some video tuts in 2018 which are awesome!

Anyone know a good intro tutorial for using Blender as a video editor like Premier?

by pitaj 5y ago

Anyone know a good intro tutorial for using Blender as a video editor like Premier?

Blender’s video editing capability is most useful as a replacement for After Effects. A free tool like Davinci Resolve is a better replacement for Premiere.

halfdaft 5y ago

I recommend looking into the Power Sequencer addon [1] that makes editing in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (VSE) a better experience. However, it's still pretty clunky so might be even better to wait for the upcoming VSE overhaul [2] [1] https://www.blendernation.com/2020/05/17/blender-power-sequencer-1-5-is-out/ https://www.blendernation.com/2020/05/17/blender-power-seque... [2] https://developer.blender.org/T78986 https://developer.blender.org/T78986

riidom 5y ago

I forget where I learned VSE, sadly, but came here to say that Blenders video editor is not so bad, if: a) You want to assemble only rendered footage. If you have real footage, well the greenscreen node is actually good, but for color grading DaVinci or Premiere are more advanced (though you can get a lot done in Blender here as well if you fiddle with the right nodes compositor). b) You can accept some limits wrt adding text overlays. There is no simple way of doing that like in P or DV. But: You can trick with preparing some .png's and fade these in and out (which works but limits you on the effects), or add the text during render, but that limits you on flexibility (someone needs a text change in last second, yay!). But I think you can go with basically any tutorial you find, it is not complicated in general. And a lot of your general blender knowledge transfers to VSE, which is a huge bonus in comparison to learn DaVinci or Premiere (which are monsters, crashy monsters).

riveducha 5y ago

I used Blender to edit a bunch of my YouTube videos and can’t really recommend it. (Using Kdenlive now and it’s OK.) Blender’s VSE is too unlike normal editing programs and the performance is bad as well. It makes your workflow more clunky for no gain unless you’re also mixing 3D scenes into your video. There are ambitious proposals to overhaul the VSE so hope might be on the horizon.

fock 5y ago
I can only recommend Cinelerra. It's much faster and more intuitive than any other thing I've found, everything is keyframeable (...) and some forks found their way into common distros (my one: Fedora). The guy also did some video tuts in 2018 which are awesome!