One of the most significant and original features of Blender, the Video Sequence Editor, makes Blender a complete video production workstation, by allowing you to quickly and easily composite your animations and merge multiple scenes into a finished movie. This core functionality has finally been thoroughly documented in the Wiki: http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Video_Sequence_Editing. It was a huge job that I totally underestimated, but completed because this entire subsystem is so rich and is a key component to Blender.
I hope you enjoy reading about it and using it, and no one will ever have to ask again how to turn their image sequences into a movie. The new Speed Control, requested by the Plumiferos movie team, is really cool as well as it makes the frame rate variable within an animation strip. Many thanks to the wizard programmers (Matt?, Peter?) who basically re-wrote this core functionality for the 2.43 release.
Oh, and if you can’t find me, just look up the Lightsaber plugin; I included a letter I got from my insurance company. Read it and you’ll see why I have to lay low for awhile.
As near as I can tell; I dont have a pair of glasses, but there’s some site where you can get them for free. It certainly looks like, to me, what those pictures look like without the glasses. What I would do is make one scene called Left, make a linked copy to a scene called Right, make the camera independent and move it slightly to the right. I think. Lemme know if that works, and with what kind of scenes it works best, and i will add it as a suggestion.
I had a Steregram plugin that would make those dots pictures where you have to defocus your eyes, and it was fun, but does not work anymore.I was really bummed about that. Someone needs to go through all of them and try to get them updated so they work.
Thanks for the thanks everyone! I must admit, I was more work than I perhaps was willing to put in. There are SO many features, they just kept going on and on. I think that R is a new hotkey but I could not really figure it out so i skipped it. Privately, I will tell you I still have some plugins that may still work, but geez, enough is enough. Unfortunately, I burned out before even getting to of my Z buffer plugins, and one didnt work, so…yeah. It was frustrating when some would not work. If I wrote anything wrong, of course, let me know and I will correct it. 100% limited lifetime warranty.
Thanks Roger!
Good effort, the sequence editor needs promoting…
You should try it out on Linux - it’s great and with even more functionality,
like loading audio from video strips, multiplexing audio/video, frameserver and a lot of output options from FFMPEG.
Cheers!
Anders
