 Today we're going to be working with Blender and we're going to do some video editing in this series and we're going to, you know, I'm just going to show you some basic video editing stuff, stuff that you might do in any other video editor, can be done in Blender and it does it fairly well. There's a few things weird about Blender which I'll go over. If you're not used to Blender, you should just get used to Blender, go to Blender website, learn how the keys work because in the video editor it works pretty much all the shortcut keys and how things are handled are similar to the rest of Blender which a lot of people complain about but it's just different. It's not that it's right or wrong, it's just different and you play with a little bit, you get used to it. I've been using Blender for years and I use the controls without thinking about it. So let's go ahead and get started. I am using Blender 2.7a in this video and let's go ahead and get started. So I'm going to come up here and I'm going to change my little scene from the default view to video editor or video editing which is also known as the sequencer. Now the nice thing about Blender is you can rearrange all this which we might go over in a different video you know and you can actually have like a library of videos up here and stuff like that but this is the default set up so let's start working with this, your timelines down here and we're going to go ahead and we're going to say add and I'm going to go to movie and then I'm going to go to a folder where my movies are and here they are listed and I'm going to go ahead and click this little icon view or thumbnail view here and it will give me a thumbnail view and I got some video from last summer of my daughter playing in the sprinkler. Off to the left here you can see we have some options for importing so if you want to import the video clips without the sound you can uncheck the sound clip here and then also you can see this is where it's going to start and what channels start channel basically tracks is what's called most video editors is basically what track or where on the timeline is going to be and what frame it's starting at and so I don't have any videos in there I'm just going to leave it at one. Now this bottom check box is great back in the day with Blender if you imported a video and it was different frame rate then your project by default Blender is 24 frames second and most digital video at least here in the US is 30 frames a second your video would be a different length in your audio because it would adjust the video length that well this little check box will automatically change that so before you had to change your projects frame rate to match your video frame rate before you started and if you have multiple frame rates in your video clips like you took them with different cameras I suppose that'd be a problem still might be a problem but this will use the frame rate the movie will change your project to the frame rate of these videos so I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to select two of these clips and I'm going to say add and you can see it added it at frame one because that's we set to and it started on track one or channel one here now one of the things for the most part I like the Blender video editor things one thing I think it's really missing is most video editors when you have a video timeline here it gives you thumbnails down here so you can quickly see what clips or what this doesn't I'm not sure if there's a way to do that also it puts the audio above the video which is the opposite of all video other video editors not that it's right or wrong it's just weird because that's not what I'm used to and I'll quite often like go to edit the video clip and I know doing something with the audio clip but you can either you know right click this and hit G and grab and put it somewhere else I'll just skip to get that or when you select one or two I'll shift click to select both of those you can see over here on the left you have a channel thing and I guess only moves one at a time you can move it channel wise there and that way you don't mess up where it is at the location wise as far as seconds or frames so now I put the video up at the top here we're going to talk about trimming up these clips and for now I'm just going to delete the audio there as an example because you do move them independently or together depending on what you're doing so you have these little handles at the end of each clip so I can right click this and hit G just like you do in any other part of blender to grab and I can resize this video I'll hit control Z twice to undo that or three times to undo that but that's one way to resize a video but no other ways to cut so I can left click and put my timeline marker wherever I want so let's say right there now I just have the video selected here I can hit K and we'll cut what's selected on that line and then I can grab move this out and there are two types of cuts there's hitting K like we did which is a soft cut and then shift K which is a hard cut and I'll show you the difference here in a moment but if you want to let's say cut the audio and video together I can you can also group things here which will get to a later video but I'm gonna hit A B to unselect all and then do a box select then I can left click and here I can hit K and we'll cut both those clips for me so we can do that let's undo all that just hit control Z a couple times so let's let me show you the difference between a hard cut and a shortcut so I have this video selected I'm going to go ahead and hit K like we did earlier and then I can grab and move this you know as I can grab this and if I want to resize it I can resize it back out and it's just adding those frames back in so basically I have two copies of the same clip just the different sizes in different locations go ahead and delete that one or actually let's just undo everything again control Z a couple times now if I shift K with that selected now I can move this and we did a hard cut now I can grab this I can make it shorter but I can't make it go past that you see how it's kind of grayed out there same with this one here the video does not play see it's kind of it's giving you a still frame there so you can't resize the video back out past that so you can see let me just play here I'll hit control A to play and you see it's playing and then you get a freeze frame and then continue playing over here I hope that makes sense I don't think I feel like I explained fairly poorly but you can see once you cut it with a hard cut the video is clipped at that point and if you pull it out you can do a still frame which is which is useful if you want to have a freeze frame at some point but you're not going to accidentally drag the video back out if you wanted to make sure that video was clips that's that shift K like so and then you can see it's great great out there and those are how to clips let's quickly review I'm going to let's just delete everything I'll grab everything delete and you notice my timeline markers here in the middle now if I go to add and I again go to movie you can see by default down here it's saying start at frame 93 so if I was to grab a clip and import it it's going to move it to frame 93 I could have changed that to one so keep that in mind it's going to drop it where you have that timeline mark unless you change that number I can grab that though and I can drag it back to frame one here if I hit control it should clip to it there we go oops and I let go of control there we go you can also if I was to grab like my video here again you can change the start from over here so if you want it right when you don't have to drag it you can just click here hit one and hit enter I can do the same for the audio one hit enter and you can also adjust the length here so off to the side here you have a bunch of options that we're gonna go over in the next few videos on on changing aspects of your clips so that's the first look at it next video we're gonna look over different types of fades so I do thank you for watching please visit filmsbychrist.com that's Chris the K there should be a link in the description if 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