Header#

View Menu#

Toolbar T: Show or hide the Toolbar.
Sidebar N: Show or hide the Sidebar.
Tool Settings: Show or hide the settings for the currently selected tool.

Preview During Transform: Show a preview of the start or end frame while transforming a strip’s start/end handles.

Refresh All

To force Blender to re-read in files, and to force a re-render of the 3D Viewport, click the Refresh Sequencer button. Blender will update and synchronize all cached images and compute the current frame.

Certain operations, like moving an object in the 3D Viewport, may not force the Sequencer to call for a refresh of the rendered image (since the movement may not affect the rendered image). If an image or video, used as a strip, is changed by some application outside of Blender, Blender has no real way of being notified from your operating system.

Frame Selected: Zoom and position the bounding box of the selected image into the center of the preview.
Fit Preview in Window Home: Resize the preview so that it fits in the area.
Zoom to Border Shift-B: Click and drag to draw a rectangle and zoom to this rectangle.
Fractional Zoom: Resize the preview in steps from 1:8 to 8:1.
Zoom to Fit: Automatically zoom preview image to make it fully fit the region.

Proxy: See Proxy.

Sequence Render Image: Render the image at the current frame.
Sequence Render Animation: Render timeline from Preview Start to Preview End Frame to a Video file or series of images.

Export Subtitles: Exports Text strips, which can act as subtitles, to a SubRip file (.srt). The exported file contains all Text strips in the video sequence.

Toggle Sequencer/Preview Ctrl-Tab: Switch the editor display type between Sequencer and Preview.

Area: Area controls, see the user interface documentation for more information.

Display Mode#

See Display Mode.

Display Channels#

Color & Alpha: Display preview image with transparency over checkerboard pattern.
Color: Ignore transparency of preview image (fully transparent areas will be black).

Overlays#

See Preview Overlays.