Introducción

The Video Sequencer allows you to place images, videos, sounds, and scenes on a timeline and combine them into a new video. This section only describes its UI; to read more about its usage, see the Video Editing section.

Organización del editor

The Video Sequencer is composed of multiple regions. They are described in more detail in the next sections. Figure 1 shows the combined Sequencer & Preview view type. This view can be broken up into the following regions:

Figure 1: Sequence Editor shown in the Sequencer & Preview view type.

Encabezado

This region displays menus and buttons for interacting with the editor. The header changes slightly depending on the selected view type (see below).

Previsualización

This region shows the output of the Sequencer at the time of the Playhead.

Editor

This region shows a timeline for managing the montage of strips.

Barra Lateral

This region shows the properties of the active strip. It’s divided into panels and tabs. Toggle on or off with N.

Barra de Herramientas

This region shows a list of tools. Toggle on or off with T.

Tipos de vista

The Video Sequencer has three view types which can be changed with the View Type selector (see figure 1; top left).

Figura 2: Los tres tipos de vista del Editor de video

Editor

Vista con las propiedades de la línea de tiempo y el clip seleccionado.

Previsualización

Vista con una ventana de previsualización y sus propiedades.

Editor de video - Previsualización

Combined view of preview and timeline and their properties.

Truco

It’s possible to have multiple Video Sequencers in one workspace, each with its own view type.

Rendimiento

El desempeño de la reproducción puede ser mejorado de varias maneras.

The method with the most impact is to allow the Video Sequencer to cache the playback. There are two levels of cache: a memory cache, which is enabled by default (and can be enlarged if RAM allows), and a disk cache, which is slower but has more capacity. Both of these can be configured in the Preferences.

Another way to improve performance is by using Strip Proxies. These are copies of source images and videos with a lower resolution and/or quality, making them faster to load than the originals.