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Blender 3D Basics

You're reading from   Blender 3D Basics The complete novice's guide to 3D modeling and animation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516907
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. 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 Pop quiz Answers Index

Time for action — editing individual video strips


Now that you've gotten some video laid into the Video Sequence Editor, you'll discover how to do some soft Trims and dissolves to assemble them:

  1. In the Video Sequence Editor, move the Current Frame Indicator to frame 148.

  2. Select the Cam2 video strip in Channel 1. Press Shift+D to make a copy. Move the copy to Channel 5.

  3. Note that on the right-hand side of the new strip, there is a solid blue bar at the top, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Use the Ctrl+MMB keys to scale the Video Sequence Editor window so you can see the entire strip and/or the blue bar.

  5. On the right side of the Cam2 strip there is an arrow button. Click theRMB over the arrow button on the right-hand side of the strip, hold it down while you start moving the mouse, then move that end to the right until it is even with the end of the blue bar. The bar will disappear when you reach the end. Press theLMB to release it.

  6. In the Video Sequence Editor, Properties panel, Strip Input...

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