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Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by beering »

charcircuit wrote: post #3

>Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) I figure most people who use blender for animation know about it considering that's the basic way you turn your rendered frames into a video file.

You can render frames directly to a video file (ffmpeg option), which I suspect a lot of beginners or casual users do. You can also use the compositor to turn a prerendered frame sequence into a video file. Lastly I suspect most users prefer video editing in another program such as Resolve. I get the inpression the VSE is nit used much because it occupies a narrow space of “need some basic cutting abilities but no transforms, titles, or effects”. Hopefully someone will continue the work of improving transforms and effects and even add 3 point editing someday

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by blackle »

I've used blender VSE for all my video editing since 2020 and it's so awesome to see it improve. I already considered it to be the best video editor on linux due to its stability and featureset (you get to use all of blender's existing animation tools!)

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by actionfromafar »

PaulHoule wrote: post #10

I’m pretty sure I could have not done this at an “actual job” If there's one thing that's gone wrong in my career is that it's been split between the occasional project where I figure out the math for something that is absolutely unique (and not paid) in which I get more done in two months than I'd usually get done in two years vs projects I get paid to work on where the results I get are basically average. I've neve…

Same.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #2

This is the sort of thing I would love to do to my music player of choice, Musicbee . You know, if it was open source! :( The creator barely touches it anymore, and it's completely free and always has been so I do not understand why it isn't open source. There are so many little nagging issues, little bits and bobs that are broken or slow or just weird that I would absolutely love fixing up in my spare time. And no,…

> I do not understand why it isn't open source.

Because your software project then becomes a people management project.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by mattl »

vsviridov wrote: post #4

VSE needs so much love... For my podcast I wanted to use all open-source tools, but rendering sequences of mp4 with some chromakey in Blender took 10 hours for 1.5 hour video. I ended up switching to the free version of DaVinci Resolve

Used VSE for a project. It was painful but we got something out of it. It was certainly the best free software video editor at the time.

Working on a new version now, using Final Cut Pro.

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by AkBKukU »

vsviridov wrote: post #4

VSE needs so much love... For my podcast I wanted to use all open-source tools, but rendering sequences of mp4 with some chromakey in Blender took 10 hours for 1.5 hour video. I ended up switching to the free version of DaVinci Resolve

One problem is Blender's multithreaded rendering doesn't scale well to VSE work because it focuses on breaking up each frame and as a result doesn't well utilize multiple cores. I've experimented with making a plugin [1] in the past to start multiple render jobs different points in the timeline in separate processes and was able to massively speed up renders.

I have since switched to Resolve on linux as well but due to using Blackmagic cameras that work better with it.

[1] https://github.com/AkBKukU/blenderSubprocessRender

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by ginnungagap »

beering wrote: post #11
charcircuit wrote: post #3

>Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) I figure most people who use blender for animation know about it considering that's the basic way you turn your rendered frames into a video file.

You can render frames directly to a video file (ffmpeg option), which I suspect a lot of beginners or casual users do. You can also use the compositor to turn a prerendered frame sequence into a video file. Lastly I suspect most users prefer video editing in another program such as Resolve. I get the inpression the VSE is nit used much because it occupies a narrow space of “need some basic cutting abilities but no tr…

Beginners do that exactly until the first time they have a render crash halfway through, then they learn about rendering each frame as an image (yes I learned this lesson the hard way)

Re: I accidentally Blender VSE

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Post by striking »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #2

This is the sort of thing I would love to do to my music player of choice, Musicbee . You know, if it was open source! :( The creator barely touches it anymore, and it's completely free and always has been so I do not understand why it isn't open source. There are so many little nagging issues, little bits and bobs that are broken or slow or just weird that I would absolutely love fixing up in my spare time. And no,…

> Reply #19 from Steven on: May 23, 2013, 03:28:39 PM

> As i have stated several times i have no near term plans to open source MusicBee. When i feel i dont want to keep the project going then making the source code available will be one of the options i would consider. This is just a hobby project done because i enjoy programming and will never be something done in a professional manner. I spend enough time managing people in my day job and dont want to have to do that with this!

> I really have no idea why this should be a surprise as i have never pretended otherwise.

> Anyone who has concerns around this (including me "being run over by a bus") really should look elsewhere and use another app so your concerns are addressed.

> Here's a link to help you out:

> http://alternativeto.net/software/musicbee/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170721042120/https://getmusicb...

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