blender-tips.md

Video editing

Properties

Change start/end frame to match video

Place the green playback cursor line in the sequencer where you want the start/end frame to be. Hover your mouse cursor over the bottom timeline(not where the clips are which is the video sequencer) and press start or end.

Video Sequencer Editor (VSE)

• Alt+a to play/pause
• Right-click clip in video sequencer to select
• Left-click in video sequencer to place green playback cursor
• g to move selected clip
• Shift+s to move video to cursor
• k cut video

Node Editor

• Check Use Nodes and Backdrop on the bottom bar
• Ctrl+g to group (Alt+g to ungroup)
• Press tab to switch between group and non-group context
• Add a Viewer node to preview something on the backdrop
• Press v/Alt+v to zoom in and out of the backdrop

Keyframes (Use the Dope Sheet and Graph Editor)

You can't rename the references directly but you can put them in a labeled group, see https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/98628/49535

Common use cases

The 3d view is showing

Go to the Properties section -> Scene and remove the camera

from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bheaEEpRCV0&lc=Ugi_xdEQJ2zyUXgCoAEC

Blur/censor part of video

• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFBdJBm1_e0
• See https://youtu.be/bheaEEpRCV0?t=4m17s for how to group into a single node

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_tIkUacl3Y for how to use the video sequencer with nodes (essentially just add scene to the sequencer).