[Bf-committers] VSE movie and other improvements

[David McSween]

To this point it is unfortunate that the VSE cannot determine the frame
rate of an imported video. It would be useful if the user could match the
Frame Rate as you can with dimensions, using Set Render Size.
So many users have low frame rate screen grabs to edit, often they're
unsure of exactly what Frame Rate their system has recorded at.

The only indication is the mismatched audio strip length, assuming they
have sync sound. Essentially they have to guess the best frame rate for
their project.

Cheers
David

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.aaron00 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >That the media frame rate is matched with frame rate of the current
> >project, that is, its hard for them to understand the mismatched audio to
> >video strip length.
>
> This is a good point and reminds me that you will want to talk about fixing
> corrupted video headers.
> This can be done using timecodes see (1) as many users are dealing with
> badly coded videos.
>
> 1)
>
> https://www.blender.org/manual/en/editors/sequencer/properties/proxy_timecode.html
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:27 PM, David McSween <3pointedit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am glad that someone with expertise is able to improve the VSE docs.
> >
> > Could I suggest that new users wanting to edit video may have
> preconceived
> > ideas from other video editing applications.
> > They typically expect to see:
> >
> > - Audio and Video tracks as separate entities.
> > - That imported media will have audio and video linked (editable as a
> > single strip or joined for sliding along the timeline)
> > - That effect strips change everything bellow them (in Blender they
> > typically change only the layer immediately below)
> > - That the media frame rate is matched with frame rate of the current
> > project, that is, its hard for them to understand the mismatched audio to
> > video strip length.
> >
> > Cheers
> > David
> > @3pointedit
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Aaron Carlisle <
> > carlisle.aaron00 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I have been working on getting the VSE documented.
> > > If you would like to join me on my journey see the the contribute to
> the
> > > manual page (1).
> > >
> > > As for that one phrase 0 is used by the display mode to view all
> strips.
> > > You can change the viewing channel to be something other then 0 e.g.
> > > to just see channel 2 change the viewer channel to 2.
> > >
> > > Does this make sense? I will adjust the wording on that phrase.
> > >
> > > As for your tutorial you should also include adding basic effects and
> > > filters.
> > >
> > > 1) http://www.blender.org/manual/about/contribute.html
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:11:17PM +0100, Knapp wrote:
> > > > > I started researching the VSE.
> > > >
> > > > Great!
> > > >
> > > > > So my first question is how do I correct the manual? For example "
> > you
> > > > > can’t put anything thing in this special one!"  I am not even sure
> > what
> > > > the
> > > > > means.
> > > > > Near the end.
> > > > >
> > https://www.blender.org/manual/en/editors/sequencer/introduction.html
> > > >
> > > > That's quite a gem you found there. I think it refers to the channel
> > > > numbers being shown a bit weirdly in the VSE; it looks like there is
> a
> > > > channel 0, while there actually isn't. I think this is the "special
> > > > one" the manual refers to.
> > > >
> > > > > Second question; is there anything you want me to be sure to cover
> > > > > in this short video? Any must haves?
> > > >
> > > > Things that come to mind:
> > > >
> > > >     - Loading a video and placing it on the timeline.
> > > >     - Configuring the render settings based on the video properties
> > > >       (dimensions & frame rate)
> > > >     - Rendering the VSE to a video file (covering at least exporting
> > > >       to a Youtube-compatible h.264 file).
> > > >     - Cutting a video into strips, and moving them around.
> > > >     - Cross fades between video strips.
> > > >
> > > > I think with these things covered, most people that want to "just
> edit
> > > > a video" are helped.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > --
> > > > Sybren A. Stüvel
> > > >
> > > > http://stuvelfoto.nl/
> > > > http://stuvel.eu/
> > > >
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