***** Strip ***** Header ====== Type Strip type represented by an icon. Name You can name or rename your strips here. Mute (checkbox) Strip will not produce any output. Adjust Panel ============ .. admonition:: Reference :class: refbox :Panel: :menuselection:`Sidebar region --> Strip --> Adjust` The *Adjust* panel is used to control visual properties of strips. Compositing ----------- Blend Mode of blending strip with lower channels. Opacity Set the opacity (alpha) of the strip. Transform --------- Mirror X Mirrors the image along the X axis (left to right). Mirror Y Mirrors the image along the Y axis (top to bottom). Image Offset Used to move the frames along the X and Y axis. Additionally it disables the auto-scaling of the image. Image Crop Used to crop the source image, use *Top*, *Left*, *Bottom*, and *Right* to control which part of the image is cropped. Video ----- Strobe To only display each nth frame. For example, if you set this to 10, the strip will only display frames 1, 11, 21, 31, 41... of the source. *Strobe* is a float value -- this way you can get a strobe effect synced exactly to a beat, for example, by using non-integer values. Playback Direction Options for choosing to play strip forwards or backwards. Color ----- Saturation Increase or decrease the saturation of an image. Multiply Multiplies the colors by this value. This will increases the brightness. Convert to Float Converts input to float data. Sound ----- Volume The volume of the sound. This value, even if animated will be reflected in the waveform. Pitch Coefficient of playback speed. This value will affect length of the strip, that will not be represented in the timeline. Pan Used to pan the audio from left and right channels. Only works for mono sources. Values can be between -2 and 2, where 0 means front/center, -1 means to the left and 1 to the right. In case of multichannel audio (rear speakers) you can pan to those with the higher values: -2, 2 is back. So this value basically represents the angle at which it's played. .. _sequencer-sound-waveform: Display Waveform Display an approximate waveform of the sound file inside of the sound strip. The waveform reflects strip volume and it's animation using :doc:`keyframes `. Mono Mixdown all audio channels into a single one. Time Panel ========== .. admonition:: Reference :class: refbox :Panel: :menuselection:`Sidebar region --> Strip --> Time` The Time panel is used to control source and timeline position of the strip. Lock (padlock icon) Prevents the strip from being moved (found in the panel header). Channel Changes the channel number, or row, of the strip. Start Changes the starting frame number of the strip, which is the same as selecting and moving the strip. Duration Changes the length, in frames of the strip. This works by changing the end frame, which is the same as selecting and moving the strip's right handle. End Specifies the ending time and ending frame number for the strip. Strip Offset Start/End Can be used to either extend the strip beyond the end frame by repeating the last frame. Or it can be used to shorten the strip, as if you were cropping the end frame. This is the same as adjusting the strip handles. .. _sequencer-duration-hard: Hold Offset Start/End Offset of the uncut strip content. Playhead Position of the Playhead relative to the start of the active strip. Source Panel ============ .. admonition:: Reference :class: refbox :Panel: :menuselection:`Sidebar region --> Strip --> Source` The Source panel is used to control sources of the strip such as filename and file path and various methods of interpreting these files. Path The directory that contains the source file. When the file is moved this can be updated instead of re-create the strip. File The file name of the source file. For image strips showing an image sequence, this will be different for each frame. Change Data/Files Same as the *Path* and *File* fields, but this time combined to open the File Browser in order to find the file(s) you search. Same as :menuselection:`Strip --> Inputs --> Change Paths/Files`. MPEG Preseek Movie strip only -- Use Preseek field to tell Blender to look backward and compose an image based on the specified amount of previous frames (e.g. 15 for MPEG-2 DVD). Color Space To specify the color space of the source file. Alpha mode If the source file has an Alpha (transparency) channel, you can choose: :term:`Straight Alpha` or :term:`Premultiplied Alpha` Stream index Movie strip only -- For files with several movie streams, use the stream with the given index. Deinterlace Removes fields in a video file. For example, if it is an analog video and it has even or odd interlacing fields. Resolution Resolution of the active strip image output. Options for Sound Strips ------------------------ Sound :ref:`Data-block menu ` to select a sound. Path Path to the sound file used by this :ref:`data-block ` menu. Pack Pack sound into the blend-file. Caching Sound file is decoded and loaded into the RAM.