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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
Book Image

Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – editing individual video strips


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

  1. In 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 that 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 the RMB over the arrow button on the right side of the strip. Hold it down while you start moving the mouse, and 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 the LMB to release it. Now, the strip is back to its original length.

  6. In the Properties...