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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition A quick and easy-to-use guide to create 3D modeling and animation using Blender 2.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783984909
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gordon Fisher Gordon Fisher
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Blender and Animation 2. Getting Comfortable Using the 3D View FREE CHAPTER 3. Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects 4. Modeling with Vertices, Edges, and Faces 5. Building a Simple Boat 6. Making and Moving the Oars 7. Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan 8. Making the Sloop 9. Finishing Your Sloop 10. Modeling Organic Forms, Sea, and Terrain 11. Improving Your Lighting and Camera Work 12. Rendering and Compositing A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – adding an audio track to Blender

Now, it's time for an introduction to the Video Sequence Editor, ironically, by adding an audio file. You will learn how to position the audio file on the timeline and display a representation of the waveform to help you in timing your animation in the following steps:

  1. Put your cursor on the boundary between 3D View and the Timeline windows and get to the double arrowhead. Use your mouse and hold it while you move the boundary up so that the Timeline window is about three times as tall as usual.
  2. With the cursor over the Timeline window, press Shift + left-arrow key to go to Frame 1.
  3. Put the mouse in the lower-left corner of the Timeline window, over the diagonal lines. Press the LMB and drag the mouse up to create a new window.
  4. Click on the leftmost button on the upper Timeline window header.
  5. Scroll up in the Current Editor Type: menu, and select Video Sequence Editor, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – adding an audio track to Blender
  6. In the Video Sequence Editor...
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