Open Source Video Editing - with Blender, but for non-Blender users

The first 4 lessons in a series on video editing using open-source software: Blender.

Blender is currently regarded a the only stable option for video editing on Linux and is a good option for precise video editing on any operating system - but it’s not that easy to even find the video editor within Blender - so I thought I’d put together a series of video for non-Blender users who want to edit video using free software, and find they want something a more precise and powerful that Windows Movie Maker or iMovie.
https://youtu.be/-fbtz6mro5M Downloading Blender
https://youtu.be/qA5AV2QJOgg Setting up Blender
https://youtu.be/AgtjjdPeKaU File Systems
https://youtu.be/jtMbHOpx2uo Editing

https://youtu.be/67wTbLwR7Go Colour Correction and Wipes
https://youtu.be/wTIwEr6PblA Keyframes and scaling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVS-vVPo6g8 Hiding and Metastrips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCL7ERYJmbY Speeding and Reversing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1OzOWTHxr4 Addons: Jump To Cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUwhkj92YsA Addons: VSE Tranform Tools
https://youtu.be/z6FnqEx1v5w Addons: Easy Logging

Any comments would be helpful… If this goes well, I hope to add videos about colour correction, using Audacity for noise-reduction, Addons that make video editing easier, and other options. I hope people find them useful, maybe not for themselves, but for friends who want to edit video,but find Blender scary.

Wonderful initiative and cheerful tutorials ! Good job !!

Thanks for the contribution. Nice tutorials.

Thank you!

Two more are being added to the series today.

Another 4 added.

And now I’ve added a tutorial on Easy Logging!

Good stuff. I always recommend Blender as a video editor but the learning curve turns a lot of people off. Good teaching is the key!

Hi Yogyog, thanks a ton for this nice tutorial !
You series is a precious teaching resource and I’ll be gladly use it as a VSE evangelism tool !

Thank you everyone!

My plans for the future episodes are:

1: More features on Easy Logging
2: Parametric video editing (automatic editing/sincing to music)
3: Proxy / Timecode
4: Audacity for noise-reduction
5: Gimp for titles
6: Blender 3D for titles (wo - that’s going to be a series all to it’s self!)

I’ve looked at VSE Quick Functions… Some of it I really like, but unfortunately Quicklist totally ruins it for me. It fills up too much space on the VSE properties panel, meaning that if you have a complex editing project you have to scroll past a huge list all the time. I’ll cover it in the series, but I’ll have to say why I don’t like it.

Are there any other things that you think I should be covering? Which of my current list do you think is most important?

Thanks! just wish I had found them a few months ago, still will watch some and pic up some tips, I have subscribed to your channel.
I do notice that Blender doesn’t appear in the title of the videos, hope folk don’t overlook them for that reason.

Excellent , thanks :wink:

Great videos, thanks for making these!