I've made hundreds of tutorials over the years. After working with popular professional programs like Vegas and Resolve, I now work exclusively with Blender. It does have some limitations, but it's the most stable and versatile tool you'll find out there.
I built Power Sequencer to help us edit videos as fast as possible. The add-on is getting better month after month, and it's yours for Free.
This add-on is a living, open project, and we'd be glad to welcome new contributors! We need people to:
- Code new features
- Improve existing features
- Help solidify the code
- Write mini-tutorials on the docs repository
- Download the repository. Go to Releases for a stable version, or click the green button above to get the most recent (and potentially unstable) version.
- Open Blender
- Go to File > User Preferences > Addons
- Click "Install From File" and navigate to the downloaded .zip file and install
- Check the box next to "VSE: Power Sequencer"
- Save User Settings so the addon remains active every time you open Blender
The docs are in progress. Until the dedicated website is ready, you can find them on the power-sequencer-docs repository. There's also a growing list of Free video tutorials on Youtube (14 videos at the time of writing).
Here are other recommended add-ons for a better editing workflow:
Daniel Oakey's rewrite of VSE Transform Tools. This tool lets you animate and move strips from the video preview. The original add-on was abandoned a few years ago. Daniel fixed and rewrote it so now it's super slick!
Based on the active strip, finds the closest next sequence of a similar type, moves it so it overlaps the active strip, and adds a gamma cross effect between them. Works with MOVIE, IMAGE and META strips
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Add Crossfade |
Add 2x speed to strip and set it's frame end accordingly. Wraps both the strip and the speed modifier into a META strip.
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Add Speed |
For each strip in the selection:
- Filters the selection down to image and movie strips
- Centers the pivot point of image strips
- Adds a transform effect and sets it to ALPHA_OVER
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Add Transform |
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Border Select |
Change the playback_speed property using an operator property. Used with keymaps
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Speed to 1x |
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Speed to 1.33x |
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Speed to 1.66x |
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Speed to 2x |
Move selected strip to the nearest open channel above/down
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Move to open channel above |
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Move to open channel above |
Set strip opacity to 1.0 and remove all opacity-keyframes
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Clear fades |
Concatenates selected strips in a channel (removes the gap between them) If a single strip is selected, either the next strip in the channel will be concatenated, or all strips in the channel will be concatenated depending on which shortcut is used.
Copies the selected sequences without frame offset and optionally deletes the selection to give a cut to clipboard effect. This operator overrides the default Blender copy method which includes cursor offset when pasting, which is atypical of copy/paste methods.
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Copy selected strips |
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Cut selected strips |
Cycle through scenes.
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Cycle scenes |
Playback speed may be set to any of the following speeds:
- Normal (1x)
- Fast (1.33x)
- Faster (1.66x)
- Double (2x)
- Triple (3x)
Activating this operator will decrease playback speed through each of these steps until minimum speed is reached.
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Decrease Playback Speed |
Delete without confirmation. Replaces default Blender setting
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Delete direct |
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Delete direct |
Selects the handles of both inputs of a crossfade strip's input and calls the grab operator. Allows you to quickly change the location of a fade transition between two strips.
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Edit Crossfade |
Animate a strips opacity to zero. By default, the duration of the fade is 0.5 seconds.
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Fade Right |
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Fade Left |
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Fade Both |
Selects and grabs the strip handle or cut closest to the mouse cursor. Hover near a cut and fire this tool to slide it.
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Grab closest handle or cut |
Extends the sequence based on the mouse position. If the cursor is to the right of the sequence's middle, it moves the right handle. If it's on the left side, it moves the left handle.
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Grab sequence handles |
Finds the first empty channel above all others in the VSE and returns it
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Import Local Footage |
Playback speed may be set to any of the following speeds:
- Normal (1x)
- Fast (1.33x)
- Faster (1.66x)
- Double (2x)
- Triple (3x)
Activating this operator will increase playback speed through each of these steps until maximum speed is reached.
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Increase playback speed |
Quickly cut and remove a section of strips while keeping or collapsing the remaining gap.
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Cut on mousemove, keep gap |
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Cut on mousemove, remove gap |
Toggle mute a sequence as you click on it
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Mouse toggle mute |
Trims a frame range or a selection from a start to an end frame. If there's no precise time range, auto trims based on the closest cut
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Trim strip, keep gap |
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Trim strip, remove gap |
Finds the closest cut to the time cursor and sets the preview to a small range around that frame. If the preview matches the range, resets to the full timeline
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Preview last cut |
Sets the scene frame start to the earliest frame start of selected sequences and the scene frame end to the last frame of selected sequences.
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Preview to selection |
Render video with good settings for web upload
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Render for web |
Delete selected strips and collapse remaining gaps.
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Ripple delete |
Save without confirmation, overrides Blender default
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Save direct |
Trims, extends and snaps selected strips to cursor
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Smart snap |
Snap selected strips to cursor
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Snap selection to cursor |
Mute or unmute selected strip
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Mute or unmute selected strip |
Toggle auio waveforms for selected audio strips
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Toggle waveforms |
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Trim to surrounding cuts |
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Refresh All |