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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction to Blender video editing

      2:33

    • 2.

      Getting started with blender video editing

      5:50

    • 3.

      Hard cut and soft cut split video

      5:17

    • 4.

      Fading and Blending

      6:53

    • 5.

      Adding Text and setting keyframes for position animation

      7:18

    • 6.

      Speed control using effect strip

      6:01

    • 7.

      Adding glow, saturation

      5:02

    • 8.

      Create Proxy clip

      3:04

    • 9.

      Export settings and rendering

      6:55

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About This Class

Overview:

In this course you are going to learn about various methods and techniques used for video editing using Blender. Most people know about blender as a popular 3d animation software that is open sourced. But very few people realize that blender provides some of the advanced video editing capabilities just like other popular video editors such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Final cut pro. Apart from video editing, blender can also be used for 3d modelling, sculpting, UV editing, shading, animation, rendering, compositing, and scripting. But here in this course we are just focused on Video Editing functionalities in blender.

These days most people prefer a certain ecosystem for professional work, they could be working on various domains but they find it comfortable to use related software such as Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing and Adobe After Effects for motion graphics and visual effects. In the same way, if you are already using blender for any kind of task or inclined towards blender, then why not try video editing with blender? You can create wonderful documentaries, amazing vlogs, informative podcast or anything you like. When you are already inclined towards blender, you will not find it difficult to learn with the similar user interface and options. Moreover you can easily add motion graphics and other animated components to your video without switching to other software.

What You Will Learn:

Here in this course, you will learn various things as below-

  • Blender Video editor features

  • Hard cut and soft cut for splitting

  • Fading in and out

  • Adding text in the video

  • Setting keyframes for animating properties such as position

  • Speed control using effect strip

  • Adding glow, crop and other transformations

  • Creating a proxy clip for optimization

  • Export setting and rendering

Who this Class is for:

This class is generally for two kinds of audience. First category could consist of people who want to learn video editing using an open source software that is both beginner friendly as well as advanced. Second category could consist of animators, designers, 3D artists or anyone who is already using blender for a variety of work and want to learn about video editing using blender. This class could cater to both set of audience.

Why You Should Take This Class:

In this course you will learn various video design and editing skills that can be used in various domains, from vloggers on YouTube, visual journalists, cinematographers to all kinds of industry professionals. This course is both beginner friendly and for advanced users who want to learn video editing skills on Blender.

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Harshit Srivastava

Developer on IBM Cloud, Bluemix

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I am Self-Taught developer who had worked on various platforms using varied languages, and involved in various Projects both Open Source and Proprietary.

I have developed Web and Android Applications, chrome Extension, worked on various frameworks, fixed bugs for some projects, and explored numerous others. I think education and learning should be free and open, not be bound with restrictions like attending classes or going to college, People from all age groups, gender, faith, race, nations, etc must get equal privilege. When entire world would act this way like being a single FAMILY, we would truly realise VALUE of Knowledge and Human Life.

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1. Introduction to Blender video editing: Hi there. Welcome to this course on video editing using blender. My name is her **** and I'm instructor for this class. Here in this course you will learn various tools and techniques that are used for designing and editing videos. Using Blender. You can use this editing skills for creating a variety of videos that can be used as a travelogue, where you combine multiple video clips together. You can add photos, you can add audio clips, video and anything. You can create a creative documentaries. You could create a podcast or just anything that is related to video. You can also use this excuse for I'm in a TV shows, or you can create your own cinematographic effects as well. Here you will learn about creating a hard cut and soft cut for escalating video clips. You will learn about these concepts as well. You will learn about various kinds of fading, fading, fading out, and it would be able to customize it. You will learn about various blending modes, how you can use them and combine on the clip. You will learn about adding text and setting up the keyframes for creating animated transformations. You will be able to transform various properties such as position equals set the keyframe. It could create animation for that. Moreover, you would also learn about controlling the playback speed of the video clip. You will be able to move the video Fast-forward. You can slow it down. You could do anything, even create a ramp of the video as you will learn about various kinds of effects that you can add on. Then you will learn about adding glue and customizing the brightness of the video clip. You will be able to reflect a video like you can turn about in a symmetric direction. Either left, right, top, bottom, and other properties as well. You will be able to create a proxy clip in order to speed up your rendering porosity in the real-time rendering while you are editing the video and much more, you will learn about various export properties and settings that are required for various kinds of exporting the videos, you will learn about rendering and much more. So if you're curious to learn this video editing skills with Blender, you start learning right now. See you in the class. 2. Getting started with blender video editing: Hi, welcome to this course on video editing with Blender. Here in this lesson, you are going to learn about getting started with Blender. So let's go. So this is a interface homepage of Blender. If you're a first-time user, you may find it a little bit overwhelming. But don't worry, we will just focused on video editing part. On the top right corner. You can select to add a work space. And from that option you got to video editing. Just select a video editing option. From the menu. Don't select the rendering part, and this will be added to your workspace. By default, Blender is not used for video editing, but you can use Blender for the rating. You can use Blender for other things as well, such as layout, modeling, sculpting, UV Editing, shading, creating animations. For rendering videos. Creating compositions is scripting and much more. So, along with video editing, you can perform various things on blender. You might have already seen various movies that has been created with Blender. You find, you could find 3D assets that have been created with printers. So blender is widely used. And most of you might already be familiar with Blender. If you're already using Blender for any other use, cases such as creating animations or composition. You can find video editing quite relaxing because you can perform video editing, creating animations, everything on the same software. Blender is very much optimized software, so it consumes very less space on your computer system. You can find everything. Here. We are in the video editing dashboard of Blender. And on the top left corner you can find various assets. You can import it from your computer, you can implode online and you can add it to the timeline. The bottom one is the timeline. If we want to create any video, you can drop multiple video clips, images, audio clips, various things on this timeline. So it will be played in the sequence. So people who are not family or when you are using the timeline mode for the first time, you can find this thing. On the top right corner. There are various options as well. You can Find the photo mode, you can find alpha channel and other things. You can find other things, histograms if you want to edit those things. But meanwhile, let's stay with this. So whatever you see on the left corner, these are the assets that we can input in this video. You can always change the folder name. You can have multiple video clips. So first one, we added an image, and then we added a video clip. So as you can see this, a person is walking on the ground with his boots. And here you can find two different lines or restraints. So what are they? One is for audio, one is for video clip. And it has been added or analytics. So you can split them, you can change it, you can add fading. You can have multiple things. You can move it anywhere from various places. And that's it. In the same way, you can add multiple video clips. You can also record some audio. If you want to create a podcast, you can add other things as well. You can add doubling and other things. So this is how are on the top right corner. You may find various settings as well. You can change the frame rate, frame size, various other settings that has been there. So in this lesson, you just focus on learning about the interface of the blender for the first time. After completing this lesson, just open up your blender, go to the video editing workspace, import some assets, and try to add them to the timeline. These are the basic things. Just adjust the frame rate by default. For a high quality videos, we require 60 frames per seconds. And for the lower end, you can set 29 or you can say 30 frames per second. In other words, if you are recording some video tutorials or you may also go with the 15th frame per second based on your requirement and other things. You can also find various other settings on the right-hand side as well. From there, you can do a lot of things. If you want to play your timeline, just press the space bar. That is a shortcut. Otherwise you can just go to the play icon, little play icon on the bottom center of the screen. And you can play back these things. Later in this lesson, you will also learn about some advanced concepts like setting up keyframes. You can apply various kinds of transitions and much more. So, just go with your blender workspace, add some video clips, add some images, try to move them around different channels. As you can see, there are multiple channels, so you can place multiple video clips, images, and other essays on top of each other. And always this follows the stack sequence is stack of plates. You can say, the higher the Anything that asset that is placed on the higher channel will be displayed. And others would we hit here. Keep learning and keep moving head. You are going to learn more in the coming lessons. 3. Hard cut and soft cut split video: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about the splitting of video clip in Blender. So let's get started. So here we got a video clip in a blender timeline. We can split it in two different ways. We can apply as a soft good and we can apply a hard cut. So you will learn the difference between these two things and how you can leverage them for your video editing projects. So let's get started. Here. Let's select a video clip. Let's delete everything else that we don't need. The blue one is the video clip. And we can select the right-click and select Split. Once you select a split option, it will make your video is splitted into two different halves. Just place your cursor on the line. You can see the white line. And wherever it is, it will replace. The video will be split from there into two different halves. So you can split a video clip into n number of different individual clips. You can excrete it the way you want to. Either frame wise or anything. You feel like. Once we apply this split icon, you can also select split into different ways. You can right-click or video clip and select the split option. Or you can press the k keyword on your keyboard, A4 kingdom. So you can press the key just anywhere you place this thing. So it will create a soft keratin. So let's learn what is software. If you created a soft query, you can drag the start of the clip to recover the French before you cut it. So even if you apply a cut, you can expand the video the way you like, and it will reach toward the video that has been deleted. So let's see how it works. So you can have expanded and it has retained everything that has been cut. And if you create a hard cut, you have to just press Shift plus k. You have to hold the Shift key on the keyboard and press the button and it will create a hard cut at, it won't allow you to restore the cliffs. It will just reached all the image, all the frame that has been in the last older starting off the cliff. So what we can do with these two different kinds of cards, we can simply cut video clips to create amazing effects. Like we have a walking boots and we can split it into multiple halves. We can apply various kinds of effects, like whenever we want to freeze their effect, we can re-frame it. Like we can place the starting at the end and at the beginning or something in between. So here it is. Just we laid this thing. And it can be used. If you want to create some kind of video that we'll have our time travel kind of FX. Or you want to remap that time. You want to show a same clip in different ways. Like for example, you may have a single clip. You want to play back in to access paid. Then you want to slow it down. Some segments of the video clip. You want to create a dramatic effect. You can create these things. Cuts can be used for everything. So there's no video editing we doubt occurred. You need to have a proper videoclip. Say if you have a ten minutes long video clip and you have to make a video of two to three minutes. You have to decide which segments of the video must be there. So like if you are working on the freight and recording with the camera, there might be some locations where you want to remove those segments of the video. So you can deliberately remove everything. And it's better to apply the hard-code. In that case, if you don't want to show something in between. But otherwise, if you want to restore some segments of your video clip, you can also go with the soft crack. So these are the two mechanisms software can be done by just right-click and select a split option. You can also apply just pressing the k keyword on the keyboard. Or you can add a heart girth using Shift K. You can experiment with both of these things. Just open the blender video editing panel workspace. And it started in various clips, videos or images. It cut it down using various software and hardware mechanisms and try to rearrange them the way you want to experiment. Be creative, and let your creativity nurture individuality. Keep learning and keep going there. 4. Fading and Blending: Hey friends, welcome back. In this lesson, you're going to learn about fading and blending for video editing. So let's get started. So here we are in the blender video editing dashboard. And here let us import a video clip to start with these two concepts. So what is feeding? You already know there is an effect called fade in or fade out. So your video clip will appear from some background. It could be a dark background, it could be a bright background. Any color you can choose, or you can have another clip or image behind that. It looks like it is emerging from somewhere. This is called fading. And you can initiate it at a starting, then it will be called as faded again. And if you place it at the end of the video clip, it will call as fade out. So we can implement this thing here, just right-click. And you can split our video clip. Here. We remove the unwanted sections of the video and we will go with the existing ones. For video editing, you need to combine various facts together. You need to split a video. You need to just select that, ah, used main important segment of the video clip. You need to alter a few things. You can add transformations. You could set keyframes. You can change the frame rate and a lot of things. So here in this course you are learning each and every concept one-by-one. So once you learn these concepts and practices well, you can combine them together to create an awesome video projects. This is the part that we require. We can expand it further. You know, there are two kinds of cards, hard cut and software, that you already learned in the previous lesson. If you require us off guard, you can create a like that or otherwise, just go with the default one. Here it is. This is the video clip. You can slow it down. You can increase the speed by speed control that you will learn later on. This right-click and select to fade. And here you've got four different options where you can select. So first is fade in and out. So it will create a fading effect at the starting and as well as end of the clip. You can add a fade in. For this. If you want to only add a fade in effect or fade from current frame and to current frame. And we have just created a black solid background color. So you can just go to the Add option where you can select distinct so you can change the color of this background. This is nothing just like a background or you can add a text, you can add a color. You can also add an image, or you can also add some other clip. So if you have added a color layer, you can go to the color wheel and change the color. You can adjust with the field. So here it is, a ocean trip. It as you can see it, cruise ship running on C. So on a sunny day. So you can add a background that matches with this wipe. So just use the similar color for maintaining the color harmony. Otherwise, just go with the default. Black. Black and white are two colors. That works very well. If you want to add some fading effect, you want anything to emerge from the white. You can have a white background or any other color with a bright tone. Or you can have the black background. Here it is. You can see it is gradual. If you want to slow down your clip, the fading effect will be gradually. And just keep reminded of one thing. You can also duplicate this layer and paste it anywhere else. So we have just created this color layer in the starting of the video clip, as well as N. We have created a beautiful fading effect. If you want to clear the fade effect, you can just do the same thing. Right-click clear feed, just below the feed option. And if you want to re-enable any other kind of fading effect, you can choose between these things. If you want to have a fading effect and they starting, you can choose fading. If you want, only at the end, you can add fade out. Next option is to blending mode. Blending allows you more power. If you want to have some advanced fading effects, just go to the right-click and effects. And you can choose from there the strips, the composite composition option. The option does reveal is the blending mode. For blending mode, remember one thing, something any, any video layer is blended on the top of another layer. So if you have another video layer, it will have some hallucinating effects like you will find, would be able to look through some of the segments of the first clip that is kept on the top and some of the bottom. If you have already used some software, image editing software like Photoshop, adobe Illustrator, you might be already familiar with blending modes. Otherwise, just to go through them one by one, you would understand it. So by default, we take the Alpha over blending mode. You can keep it in the default mode. Otherwise, you can try different things. We want to highlight certain things of the video clip. You can choose. Something like lighting is green, light inborn, or Colorbond. If you have multiple clips and you want to have some similar effects, you can have the multiplier effect. Otherwise, if you want to highlights some dark segments, you can have some other hard light effect. You could choose Overlay effect. It can have Alpha under, you can have the cross blend, you could have a replace blend, anything like that. So you can choose various properties and you can also change the opacity of the video clip on the top. So not just a video clip, you can also change the property of the color layer, images and anything else. So this is how you apply blending and fading in, in Blender. Keep learning and keep moving ahead. 5. Adding Text and setting keyframes for position animation: Hey, welcome back friend here in this lesson you're going to learn about adding text and setting up key frames for these kinds of animations where you can use transformation properties to create animation. So let's get started. So here we have our video clip that has been added to the timeline. And we are in the video editing workspace, just moved to add. And here you can add on a text. You can also add a color. You can add other elements as well. So if you provide a text, you need to provide a description of the texts that you want it to be displayed. Just move to the strip option. The effect is trip. And here you can provide the keyword for all the texts. You just write anything like a welcome and put it here and it will be displayed. You can also alter this text. You can change various properties. You can increase the size, you can decrease the size. You can change the color of the text. Just click on here. And you can choose from various colors on the color wheel. So you can decide color. You can also provide the hex code if you prefer, in that way. Otherwise you can choose any color. You can also use the eyedropper tool to take the color from the background. So like if you have multiple colors in the background and you want to create a team with the harmony. You can do so. You can also create an order outline or the shadow for this text. And you can create it if you check this, by default, it is unchecked. So it won't create a shadow. If you want to cast a shadow for this text, you can create it. And you can also change the color, say, by default it is black. And if you check it, you would be able to change the color. Just move the color wheel. By default it is set to black. You can change it to RGB. Take any sample color, like we have created, a dark blue color for the text. And light blue could be used in the shadow. It makes it a little bit 3D effect. And you can use it. Although it looks like as some old school designing technique. But still you can move with this. You can also increase the duration of the display for this text. You can decrease it. If you want to make this text visible for a longer duration, you can simply expand timeline explanatory in the timeline, the component. And if we want to add a fading effect, just right-click and add fade. It is better to add a fading in and fading out as well both. So it will look at these in here on a video editing clip. If you want to add some subtitles, you can use the taste tests can be used for various users. Use cases. You can add subtitle, you could add information like anything, like if you're creating a travel blog, you could add namespaces, four places. The food, for example, whatever you eat. If your video is recorded in one language, you can add another language and so on. And the language for texts would depend on your computer. If you have the font. For English, only, you can go with English. If you have fallen for other languages like Chinese, Arabic, anything else? You can go with that irritates. And you could set the keyframes for this text like you can create animation. Just select the text, go to the strip option to select the position. And the dot is small dot icon next to every value, the white colored dot, that is called key frames. So those of you who are very new to the concept of keyframes. Keyframes are used for creating animations. So as you can see, we have moved the text. We can move it anywhere on the screen. So if you change the position x, x is the x coordinate. It will move left or right. Why is the y-coordinate vertically? It will move top or bottom. You can use the scaling, you can change the anchor point. The anchor is the center point. From where the texts rewards, you can change the rotation answered other properties. Just you need to go into value field in the strip option. And you can move on. Whenever you click on this dot, I can eat set a key frame and the color changes to yellow and green afterwards. And then later on, you can change the set another keyframe by just moving the keyspace. So for example, you need to just click once on the dot, set the position to 0. So initially it will be positioned at 0. Then move it further in the time. And move that keyword for different values, say 50 order coordinate and set another keyframe. So between these two seconds gap, it will move in that direction. So this way, we have created an animated texts. You could create animated videos, you could add a lot of things. This is not like a 2D or 3D animation where you animate everything. That is part of our advanced part for motion graphics. You can use it. Also blender allows you to create motion graphics as well, but it is not part of video editing. Video editing is completely different thing. But you can create a lot of motion graphic things using this simple video editing concepts. Keyframe. So keyframes require you to give enough dedication. You would learn with mistakes. So if you do some mistakes, don't worry, just start again the keyframes. And once you click on the keyframe, it will either create or delete. So if you have created, if you have not created a keyframe, it will create, initialize. And if we have created and click again, it will remove it. So you can do it. And if you have any doubt, you can simply delete that segment of the video clip where you have done some mistakes. Hold keyframes. You can simply move ahead and add it again over again. So we have just simply moved this video clip off the ship from top to bottom. But we have not added any other clip in the back. And I would say, if you have multiple clips, you can create your own transition effects. There are various kinds of transition effects that you can use on the videos. Using these position keyframes, you can create your own transitions. Like anything appears from anywhere on the screen. If you have green is green components, it will create motion graphics effects or visual effects as well. So keep learning and keep moving ahead. You're going to learn more in the coming lessons. 6. Speed control using effect strip: Hi, welcome back friends here in this lesson you're going to learn about is speed control and using effect is strips. So let's get started. So before moving forward, let us readjust the window panel. You can do it very easily the way you want. If you have already added a video clips and you don't want to see this project explorer panel. You can expand the monitor. You can also minimize other options as well. It is better to have the preview monitor as well as timeline covering most part of the screen. Because there is a widely-used, then you can also customize other things as well. Let us now add an effect, a strip just moved to add option next to the strip option. And here you can add multiple things. Let us add an effect strip from third option from the top and add a speed control. So this will allow you to add various things like a glue, Gaussian blur transformation, multi-camera selector, and other things. You could also add text, color, the background color. It is also called as a solid. You could add adjustment layer, the feed sound, anything else? What does a speed control do? You? Speed control is like a different layer of just about the video layer. And it allows you to change the speed of the video. You could do it two ways. Also, you can change the speed of the video by selecting the video layer itself. But it offers multiple options as well. You could just go to the time option in the strip panel. And here you would find a Duration option. You can change the duration of the video by simply making it fast, fast, or is low. So like for example, you've got a ten minute video clip. If you change the duration from ten minute to five-minutes, it will make it two times faster. So anything that is displayed in ten minutes will be displayed, will be compressed. And will you play it in five minutes? If you increase the duration from ten to 20, it will slow down and make it half of the screen. It won't cut your video. It will just change the speed of a video. So you can change the duration of the video. Keep in mind, you have to define the starting frame and end frame. Because if the duration Xist and frame, it wouldn't be exported. So make sure you keep the end frame where you want. You can customize it later on. Don't worry, you will learn in the next lessons. So you can change the duration of the video playback. You could define the starting frame, you could define the end frame and time. You can also do it by frame or do it by time. So either if you want to cut the video clip, you can also cut the video clip. You could play it at a different part. For cutting forest splitting the video, you need to do either hard or soft cut. Or you can use the mouse to drag. If you drag from the end of the video, it will cut it down from the later part, or you can compress it using the duration. For editing a video, you can perform various things. You can cut it into multiple parts. You could add different layers. For a speed control. Like you could add a background color, you could add text, you could add multiple things. You could add that glow, you could add the crop. He could change the transformation properties and other things as well. So when you combine these skills together, you could create an awesome video. If you're not sure about any effect, just add it there. Add it as a layer and just move to the strip panel. Just move through various properties, change their values, and learn with this. Don't be rigid with anything you already know reopened to experiment with different things because creativity is curated only when you experiment or trying new things in new ways. Always look forward for doing things differently, little bit differently. So you can scroll down, move with different settings at once. If you're not sure about whether to move with this thing or not, you can always choose to delete that layer because everything you have added will be added to the layer or not to the video itself. So if you change a delete that layer, the settings will be gone. But if you apply these changes to the video layer itself, you have to change it manually. Or also you can add a video clip as well. But if the video is very complex, it is not advisable to do this thing. Also with the strip Lira, there's an advantage. So for example, if you have multiple video clips and you want to add some layer, it will affect everything below it. Like if you have an image and a video, everything will be effected. Called adjustment layer. Not desperate control. Speed control is just for a video's, not for the images. So try. These things, add an effect to strip, play with the speed control and other things. Keep learning and keep moving ahead and be creative. You are going to learn more in the coming lessons. 7. Adding glow, saturation: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you are going to learn about adding glue and changing brightness, saturation and other things in Blender. So let's get started with this. So we got a video clip, add it to the timeline. Just go to the Add option. And you can go to effect a strip and you can add the glue. So just follow this thing, select the clip, go to Add option, go to effect a strip. And here you've got various options. You can add a transformation multi-camera selector. You can add a speed control. You can add a Gaussian blur or you can add a glue. For now, we're going to add a globe. So what is a glue? There are various properties that define the glue. On the right-hand side, on the effect is cheap. Options control panel. You've got various properties that you can adjust on a video clip that will resign your property. So for cinematographers and other people who use color grading, this glow effect is strip could be very useful, although it does not offer the control, complete control of color grading. But it do a lot of thin. It will allow you to power. For example, if you have taken a video like this in the daytime, but there was a sale for obvious reasons. There is not sufficient enough brightness. Either you have shorted and shadowy part, the dark side, or the son was not bright enough. There could be clouds or even into, there could be pollution and other conditions. You are not satisfied with the brightest level. You can increase the brightness, not just to increase the brightness, you can also control the saturation between various colors. Like in the foggy climate where there's a fog, industry, storms, there could be cloudy seasons, Something like that. The saturation of colors are not that much visible like a glue is not clearly blue, somewhat grayish. Red is not complete red, it is somewhat darkened. So you want to add saturation in that case. Or for other reasons. If you want to create some animation, you can also do that. Remember one thing, there's always a key frame attached to every property. So if you want to create some kind of animation effect, you can also do that. Like if you want to create an animation like your video appears with a high saturation and gets into the normal saturation level. Or it may have a high brightness that's gradually decreases over time. Like you can find that videos in Hollywood movies or other places where like if you want to have some angel present. So how does an angel appears in a Hollywood movie? Hollywood movies. There's a bright light and suddenly everything gets back to the normal light. You can adjust it animate using this brightness properties. Also, you can transform your video clips in the x, y position coordinates. You can scale it. You can create a mirror effect like just select our x or y option. You can create a mirror image, like we have created this mirror image in the x coordinate on the ship was in the earlier clip. It was on the left-hand side. We can flip it. And the magic is, it doesn't look artificial. It looks like completely natural. So maybe if you have taken a video clip on the right-hand side of the ship and you want all for various reasons, it to appear on the left-hand side. You can do that using this mirrored property. Minute. Tiny effects or controls that is provided by the blender that you can leverage to design your video the way you want. The mirror property, you can change the boost factor all the blood is change the quality and other things. So try to leverage various properties. Just play with various effects, change various properties. You will learn everything. So these video editing is a creative with skill and creativity. You need to experiment and British your risk is a lot. So in order to be an artist, you need to draw a lot of paintings on the Canvas. You have to draw a lot of his sketches. So just for the video editing, you have to edit a lot of video. If you want your first video to be Oscar winning, it is not possible. You have to practice a lot. Learn these things. Just by practicing. Keep learning, and keep moving ahead. You're going to learn more in the coming lessons. 8. Create Proxy clip: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about creating a proxy clip in Blender. So let's get started. So you already know how to add video clip to the timeline. And the video that is added to the timeline is 02, full quality, full length. And at the time of rendering, you may have multiple such video clips, like say, ten or 20 video clips. And it will take time to render in the real time. Although you, when you are exporting the video, you want it to be a high-quality video without any loss of data. But at the time of editing, as you can see here, the preview monitor, you don't want the video to be lagging. So what you can do if you don't have a high GPU machine, or either if you have a high GPU machine, you want the rendering process to be very seamless. You can create a proxy. Proxy clip is kind of dummy clip that is based on the original clip with a reduced quality. The quality will be reduced only for the preview phase. While you are editing a video. It won't affect the final video. How you can create a proxy clip. Let's learn about this. So here we have added one video clip. As you can see, we are moving it on this. And then you can go to the View option just next to the preview. You can find it just above the preview monitor where the video is being displayed. And you can choose to create a proxy. So the first step is to set up a proxy. Then we will rebuild it, and then we can render it. So just go to the View option, select proxy and create a setup. So if you want to have a 50 per cent or 25% of the quality you can select for. Now, we will go with a 50% quality and hit Okay, so first it has been set up, then you can go to rebuild option. And here it is. So your proxy is being set up and spill it. So the video that you preview it will be created on the proxy. Proxy. Creating a proxy is not a component of video editing itself. But if we're doing some advanced components, like if you're rendering for k videos, it will be difficult for your computer to render in real time with a high resolution. So you can create a proxy clip in that case. So blender is a powerful video editing tool. Don't forget it. You can create a lot of videos, design various custom advanced videos for a lot of work. So keep learning and keep moving ahead and start practicing. So you can practice everything that you learned in these lessons. 9. Export settings and rendering: Hi, welcome back friend. Here in this lesson you're going to learn about export settings and how you can render your video after you have edited it. So you have designed your video combining multiple clips, creating various effects such as feeding transitions and much more. And it's important to know what are the various settings that you need to know for exporting a video properly. Because there could be various kinds of requirements for the platform that you want your video to be exploited. Say, if you are going to create a video for YouTube or other social media platforms, you can define various kinds of formats. The frame rate, aspect ratio, the file format, the color, tone, output quality, audio codec, and much more. There are a lot to do. So on the top right corner, you can find various settings that are important for exporting a video. So as you can see here in the timeline, we have added multiple clips. You can do in a various ways. You can combine a very complex video or you can add a simple image as well. Export settings is for everything. So you have to decide the starting frame and end frame. And you can choose it, define it here. Otherwise, you can manually select it as well. You have to decide the dimension of your video. Like a currently have cited to 1920 by 1080 pixels. The resolution, then we have set aspect ratio as one is to one. If you want to change it, you can change. If you want to export a video for 4k resolution, you can choose the forecast settings. Otherwise, you can go with the HD settings or SD, anything you want. Then you can decide various other things like output, location, time revamping. If you want to do otherwise, just leave it. Then the frame rate, frame rate is by default 60 frame per second. Depending on the video. If the video has a lot of motion, it is advisable to have a higher frame rate. Or otherwise. If it is for podcasting or something like that, where there's not a lot of motion. You can have a lower frame rate. For example, if you have a height short video where you are, you're speaking to your audience directly. And while you are not moving, there's nothing moving in the background. You can choose a lower frame rate in order to make the video quality look decent, although with a small size. If you want to have a various advanced graphics like travel blogs, you can choose a higher frame rate. Then you can define the file format where you want to render. It is better to choose FF, MPEG-4 video format if you want to convert to mp4. Otherwise, you can also go with the AVI format, AVI role for lossless JPEG. You can go with the image files as well, depending on what you want to export. Then you can choose the color. You can choose to output quality if you want to have a constant betrayed. If you want to choose a lossless format, you can have a perpetually lossless, high quality, medium quality, low and very low. Say if you want to just have a prior video and you're running for a small oil mobile phone devices are some smartwatches with a lower resolution. You can set a Lewis output quality. Otherwise, just go for the high-quality or lossless format. Then you can choose to include what you want to have in there rendered video output. If we want to have various effects, if you want to have the datetime being displayed, you can select them. Otherwise you can uncheck them. If you don't want to move. Then there are other properties as well that you can check. Otherwise keep them divulge like color. We don't want a black and white video. We'll go with the RGB. But if you want to convert it to a black and white video, It's very simple. Once you are done, just go to Render next to the file and render the animation. So it will render, it will take some time. And it will create an output just like this. This is a preview, preview window. And you can find in the process it is rendering. You can minimize it. You can scale it down and have the background just to make it a little bit small, readjust the size. And you can see on the bottom center option there is a progress bar that is rendering this video clip. And you can see the time liner. It is moving towards the right-hand side. In the process, it is being rendered. If you render with the loss lossless format or high-quality, it will take some time. If you render in low-quality, it will render very easily. Or audio codecs, you can check double AAC, FLAC, MP3, mp4, sorry, AMP2 and MP3. You can go with the PCM format. If you're not an audio person or do you feel, then it's better to go with the AAC or MP3 format. For those of you who are very much into the audio world, you already know that MP3 is a lossy format. And you can go either with their WAC or PCM format. Vcm is generally preferred for Apple devices like iPhones, MacBooks, and other. Aac is preferred everywhere else. Also, it, everything will work on all devices. There's nothing of the sort. And if you want to have the highest quality of audio that is crisp and clear. Like something like the raw format. Raw format is for images. You can choose FLAC format. Flac. Flac is like a raw format for audio, and you can go with that. But most people go with a double AAC format. Otherwise, if you're not sure, just leave it default. You can also check the sample rate, volume betrayed, and other settings as well. Once you're done, you can also export this file as FBX format or the Collado format that you can use it later on. Keep learning and keep moving ahead.