Blender Video Editing Quick Tip Sheet

Loading the file and Initial setup

1. File -> New -> Video Editing
2. Drag a file onto the timeline

Setting the size of the timeline

1. In side panel Strip -> Time -> Start -> Set to 0 (for both audio and video strips)
2. PgDn to go to start of the strip, Ctrl+Home to set the beginning of render range
3. PgUp to go to end of the strip, Ctrl+End to set the end of render range
4. OR in Video Sequencer window go: View -> Range -> Set Frame Range to Strips
5. Rightclick video strip -> Movie Strip -> Set Render Size (sets output size to input size)
6. Home to zoom out to see entire strip within the window

Editing

1. Play/Pause the video with Space
2. Move the header with a mouse to seek through the video faster
3. To cut the video at the header into two parts with K (strips have to be selected)
4. To delete unneeded parts - Del
5. On top of Sequencer window, click the magnet icon, to enable snapping
6. Move clips with mouse to snap them together, they snap well to the header as well
7. Snap selected strip contents to the current frame with Shift+S

Setting the output format

1. Output tab (printer icon)
   1. Make sure Frame Rate is 60fps
   2. In Output section select the directory for output files
   3. Subsection Encoding -> Video -> Output Quality set to Perceptually Lossless

Normalizing volume

1. Click the audio strip on the timeline
2. In side panel Strip -> Sound -> Volume grab the number with mouse and move right/left to raise/lower the volume, so the diagram in the strip is visible, but without the red cutoff markers

Saving

1. Press Ctrl+F12 to render the video to output file