How To Edit Video with Blender 2.90 | Basics | Walkthrough | Beginner

hello and welcome to a video on video editing with blender blender just released version 2.9 i thought it'd be a great time to redo my blender video editing basics video so in here i'm just basically going to show you that now i do have an app running to show you what keys i'm pressing and keys i'm clicking so on the bottom right you will see everything i do there's like a left click there right click and so on so obviously you need to go download blender and that is the base requirement just blender 2.9 it should work on any os keys might be slightly different though and once you're in blender you will get your opening screen you get this out of the way and of course you got all this modeling stuff now to get to video editing there's a couple different ways you can click this plus up here at the top go to video editing and then video editing again and that takes you to the video editing interface you can also do or open a video editing project specifically by going to file new video editing now you'll see you only have video editing and rendering up here now just a quick blurb about why you should use blender or blender as a video editor or why you could it's basically it can do everything it can do the stuff all the big editors can do and it can do pretty much all formats it does have a few limitations so let's get started now the first thing you probably want to do is your main configurations and that's over here on the right side you want to make sure that this output right here is set to where you want your video to save i don't want it to go to temp i would rather go to a folder see on my d drive called render so i'm going to click that and hit accept accept again and now it's going to save to that folder so i know where to find it when it's all done and you want to scroll down a little bit here and change file format to ffmpeg video there are other formats too or maybe you actually do want a bunch of pngs but in general you probably want a video if you're video editing there we go and then you also want to check this encoding drop down and scroll down some and look for audio under audio you want to change the audio codec to aac and you can leave everything alone everything else here is optional you can as you can see there are options to do a bunch of different things you're welcome to play around with those but they are just not required to get things going and we're just looking at the basics now that you've got that started let's go ahead and save in case something goes wrong you don't want to have to redo your settings so hit save give it a title and as you can see it's a dot blend file we're just going to call this video editing long title i know and hit save of course keep know where you saved it now let's talk a little bit about how to actually get a video in here and how to interact with this space a little bit down here you see the sequencer and if you're familiar with blender at all you'll know that you can modify these as you want just by clicking on the edges and dragging and i don't want to talk about that a whole lot because that's more of a blender specific thing but this is the default and we're just going to stick with the default on the sequencer if you hover over the sequencer you can use your mouse wheel to change your zoom you can hold your mouse wheel down to drag the sequencer and a right click brings up a menu and you'll see some things in here that can help you once you're actually editing we may or may not use that left click is what clicks things there's nothing in here yet let's go ahead and bring in a video you'll see up here by default that we have a file explorer you can use this file explorer to drag things in or bring things in you can also just use your operating systems file explorer to bring things in i'm going to go ahead and go to my d drive by just typing it in there and also use these buttons here to go back forward up refresh but on on my d drive i have a re a wreck or recording folder if you're bringing video in from your phone you do need to bring that in somewhere and navigate to it okay so we're going into the recording folder and there's a bunch of various videos i'm just going to grab i guess this one looks fine and i'm just going to bring it down here into the sequencer there we go so now i can zoom out a little bit roll around by holding the mouse wheel down and kind of see the length of it and getting to the end here you can look at the top and see the times now the first one is the minute seconds here you see it's like 50 over here it's getting to one minute the second one after the plus is how many frames when you really oops when you really zoom in you can see the frames more carefully there's frame 40 there's frame 12 and also i should mention when you bring in a video it automatically sets up here in these settings the frame rate as you can see this set it to 60 because this video was rendered at 60 frames per second a really important thing here about these frames is it doesn't really do well with videos of different frame rates so if i now tried to bring in a video recorded at 30fps it would not work well together i would have to do some like weird things so it might be best to get them all in the same format before you bring them into blender to edit them and there are other tools to do that such as handbrake and i believe openshot video editor will put them all in the same frame rate so you could just do an export with those or conversion with handbrake but that's really a side point and that's only necessary if you're pulling video from different sources different phones often record at different frame rates or if you're using recording software it might be recording at different frame rates but i feel like that's necessary to mention because i can get people caught up and now we want to scroll out so we can actually see everything keep scrolling out mouse wheel it all centered up and you'll see here there's an area that's lighter this this light area is where it's actually rendering and you can drag this playhead here to view your video as you can see it's kind of lagging as i'm going here doing a lot of lagging i'm actually clicking and dragging still but it's just lagging and lagging and that's pretty normal it's because it has to catch up and render this video as you're dragging now if you don't want to do that if you don't want it to show your video so you can actually work a bit faster you can change this preview or something else maybe just another sequencer for this moment now you can see when i drag it super fast and responsive that can be nice if you're editing mostly off the audio now the audio track is this bottom one the teal one and you can click over in the properties here display waveform and that will show you your actual audio waveform that way you can tell maybe which points it's loud or you're talking or which points you want to cut because it's too boring or something like that it can often help to to see that waveform so i guess it's a good time to mention that over here is where your properties come up for anything you've clicked on in your sequencer if i click on the video i get this video clip here i get the properties of it if i click on the audio then i get the audio properties so most videos do come with an audio track and a video track and you'll see some little tabs way over on the side here that you can click on to get other options sometimes you might accidentally click on these so just know to that if you're not seeing the right options check these tabs and make sure you're on the right one i'm looking at strip all right so let's actually change this render area to one we need because right now if for example we hit play right here you can hit play down here or you can hit spacebar it loops based on where you have it starting and ending which can be nice if you're working on an effect for that little little part and you can always change these at the bottom right here you see a start and an end these are frames so we're going to keep the start at one but we want to change the end to the end of our video so you can either click and drag i guess my left button down thing is in the way but basically you see these wide arrows it makes you can click and drag there to change it and you can also just type it in you can just go in there i guess i'll get this over for a second so those button things aren't in the way you can just physically type it in here if you know exactly what frame it is and it does tell you your current frame of this playhead so sometimes you can go off that for example you can hit page up to go to the end of the current strip and then click this do a copy and then paste it on the end and you get the exact one that way so now some basics you can cut this up make parts shorter or longer whatever you want to do with it and i'm going to show you a little bit of that and then i'll show you how to render you can also layer more videos let's bring in another one maybe you want clips from separate videos so here's another one we could like cut them and put it in the middle but here to do this grab thing i'm just clicking and box selecting and then clicking the clip and left button down moving it pretty straightforward operation there you just click one of them and move it and they get misaligned now if you get them misaligned what you can do is hit control z go back standard undo and you can also snap so if you've got it like this if you want to get it to line up and you hold control it begins to snap so it's trying to snap here and then it's snapping over here and that can help with the lineup too that little snap option let's say i don't know let's just do a random example here say i want to cut out some of this so maybe the beginning maybe the beginning of this first one is really boring so if you control click on an edge where the edge is a slightly different color you grab the edge and now when you click and drag on the left button down you actually change the length at the start maybe i want to cut off that part and i click clicked out of here to unclick it and i'll go to the end and do the same thing i'll hold ctrl and click and as you can see it didn't grab both that's because these clips are slightly different length now that tends to happen with videos sometimes the video and the audio or a frame different this is 1786 frames and this one's 1787. so i'm gonna first grab this and and just snap it to the end now they're the same so when you control click on things that i guess they're not maybe okay this one needs to be shortened to 1786. now that they're both the same length on the end control click selects them both so control click will select everything of the same length that includes uh entire bars and if you're doing the end it includes matching ends so if i control click on this one they also don't both select because they're probably one frame off a lot of recording software just tends to do that so maybe i want to go ahead and get that one sorted out too by changing this okay so now when i control click it selects them both so just a little note on that control click to select both so we'll cut off a little bit of the end on that one and then say maybe we want to cut out this middle part where it's a bit boring now you notice i can't bring this play head back here because it's four zero that's just the way blender is but if i move this up here and let's move this other one out of the way we can take our play head to here and select both of these and we can cut them you can do a right click and do split as you can see it tells you the hotkey just k you see other options in here like add transition fade clear fade movie strip make meta strip we're really not going to get into those too much but know that those are useful but you're welcome to play around with them just if you mess something up you can always press ctrl z and undo what you just did so i'm going to do a ctrl click to click both of these and i'm going to press that k shortcut and that now splits the clips and we can interact with them as though they're separate clips so we'll just do a little playing around here and drag the end of this one so previously in blender to move clips around you couldn't just left click you used to have to press g for grab and do it which still works but now you can just click and drag if they're selected so that's one of the major changes in these this new version all right well the software i was using to uh do the key things has crashed so no more of that i think you got the gist of it though okay so we're going to grab this end here and we'll move this over and if you overlap a little gets red and basically that means it's going to snap out of there to the end so they are lined up now so a little overlap is no big deal you want to precision move these around while you're dragging you hold shift so holding shift it barely moves but without holding shift it moves a lot all right so that's looking okay we did a few things maybe we'll throw in one more cut here so i'm going to highlight these press k again got some of this and there we go now our clip is split up if we want to see what that looks like we can take our i don't know let's just see how the transitions look we'll put the start right here and we'll put the end right oh right there there and then we'll go up here and change this to previewer and it's going to kind of lag out because it's actually got to load the video and we'll press space and now we can kind of see what these transitions look like it does lag a little bit in the transitions and it's still lagging a bit it's pretty normal for it to lag a little bit when you're hitting play as you can see it's bringing down this fps also because i'm recording to this drive i'm editing on probably part of the reason why so let's stop that there we go and you can always render it out if you want to see what something really looks like and how it's going to render you can go ahead and go to render and render animation and it will render that section that you have for the start and end let's say for example we just want to go over here and add some of this other one and i'll just do something random let's do a display waveform cut off some of the end i'll go over here and cut some of this okay move that over i'll cut some of this and we'll just drag it down here line it up drag it down here now someone's crazy something kind of crazy happens when you drag across the playhead and it basically lags you out like crazy and that's because this preview is up so you can either move the playhead out of the way or you can change this to sequencer i'm going to change it to sequencer because i'm not a big fan of that super lag move it down here move this down here go ahead and change the end um right there we're not going to worry about getting it exact middle click and drag over change the start to here and now we could render this out and and get a little clip with all these cuts but if we want to start getting fancy here i'll show you a few more tricks let's grab this here move it up a couple i'll hold ctrl so it snaps and also press see why you're moving around you can press x to stick with x or y to stick on the y nice little hotkeys there but what you can do here let me zoom in is you can overlap them a little bit with the previous one and then click the video and the video on the overlap and then right click and go to fade or let's not fade transition and do a wipe a gamma cross or a cross let's do wipe so it adds a little wipe thing that's the length of the overlap you can go over here to the properties while the wipe is selected and you can change it there's some transition types single double iris clock and out blur width angle and those are the main things you want to mess with but you can see what those look like and get a little play around and let me go to the preview previewer and this is just the default single wipe now you couldn't really see it so i'd have to render this out i guess you can you can click and wait for it to kind of lag as you can see it's doing a wipe right there in the middle so if i change this same up the blur with a little bit you can see how it's blurring or if i change this to double you can see it's wiping on both sides i guess the blur is kind of making that hard to see but you can see what your transition is going to look like by just sitting here and having it on the sequencer and the volumes if you want the volumes to fade you need to select both the volumes use shift to click both the volume so we click the first one hold shift click the second one then you can right click and go to crossfade sounds and that will just make the sound so they don't yeah just a standard crossfade and you can do that with any clips where it seems like it's a good idea i don't know i guess it's up to your video editing knowledge or video producing knowledge typically you don't want to crossfade in between similar scenes usually it's when it's going to a whole new scene but this is just for the sake of example so i'm going to delete this and maybe we want to just back these up put it in there oh they did something weird so i'm going to hit ctrl z ctrl z again there we go it looks like it's just not um lining up too well there we go let's zoom out a little bit i'm gonna box like all these move them over grab this put it there and now this was a whole different video over on this side so maybe that's when we want the actual nice transition so we'll do a little overlap now the typical good overlap length is two seconds that's just from my experience so if we look on here we'll go like 24 to this goes to about 25 and 36 we want like the 23 and 36 and we'll just drag it over to approximately that maybe about there it doesn't have to be perfect but this is just a general rule for them that tends to work so select both the videos again go to add transition wipe and try the fades to however you want to do it we'll do a wipe in with a iris this time and we'll also go with the sounds and cross fade the sounds so that's there's a lot of stuff you can play around with and then we'll line these last ones up it's not seeming there we go i had to click on them to move them change the end to the actual end and then when you're ready to render you just go up here and click render and it's going to take a while when it's all done you will find it in this location here where you put it thanks for watching [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 26min 13sec (1573 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 02 2020