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Michael Chu
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A variety of content, mostly organized by playlist: "Tutorials" for software tutorials; "Music Videos" for my (parody) songs; "Demos" for software demonstrations; "And now for something completely different" for something completely different, mostly.
1 = 4? Creating a Plane Track using a single Tracking Marker in Blender (43)
Have you ever wished you could make use of the rotation that Blender captures when Motion Tracking a feature? You're in luck, that's exactly what this tutorial is about. We are going to go over the steps to use a single tracking marker to create a plane track that can rotate as the marker does.
We will use some Python code to help us with one key step, and after that it's regular Blender work to build & apply the plane track.
** Links from the tutorial **
The Python code that we use:
github.com/michaelgchu/Blender_scripts/blob/main/markers_from_4_corners.py
Credit to user "emu" on the Blender StackExchange site for the original concept & code that this tutorial is based on:
blender.stackexchange.com/questions/51810/is-it-possible-to-use-four-corners-of-a-single-marker-for-a-plane-track/51811#51811
** Time codes **
00:00 Intro
00:45 Topics
01:50 Getting the Code (and Shout-out)
03:27 Adding Code into Blender (Text Editor)
04:21 Configuring the Code (names)
05:50 Setting the Frame Range to process
07:46 Running the Python Code
09:43 Creating the Plane Track
10:51 Previewing our Effect
12:32 Finishing it off in the Compositor
16:09 Outro & Playback of Rendered Movie
** Image credits **
Green arrow by cyberscooty
openclipart.org/detail/191324/arrow-simple-way-green
Running person
mt-xing.github.io/APPsychProject/
We will use some Python code to help us with one key step, and after that it's regular Blender work to build & apply the plane track.
** Links from the tutorial **
The Python code that we use:
github.com/michaelgchu/Blender_scripts/blob/main/markers_from_4_corners.py
Credit to user "emu" on the Blender StackExchange site for the original concept & code that this tutorial is based on:
blender.stackexchange.com/questions/51810/is-it-possible-to-use-four-corners-of-a-single-marker-for-a-plane-track/51811#51811
** Time codes **
00:00 Intro
00:45 Topics
01:50 Getting the Code (and Shout-out)
03:27 Adding Code into Blender (Text Editor)
04:21 Configuring the Code (names)
05:50 Setting the Frame Range to process
07:46 Running the Python Code
09:43 Creating the Plane Track
10:51 Previewing our Effect
12:32 Finishing it off in the Compositor
16:09 Outro & Playback of Rendered Movie
** Image credits **
Green arrow by cyberscooty
openclipart.org/detail/191324/arrow-simple-way-green
Running person
mt-xing.github.io/APPsychProject/
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Compositing not showing up in Blender's Video Editor? Try this!
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Are you just getting a gray preview after adding your Compositor workflow scene into the Video Sequence Editor? Try changing the Scene Strip Display. This 1-minute method may help with Blender version 3.6 and the latest version 4.0
Plane Track Replacement in Blender v3 (41)
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Plane Track replacement is a technique that lets you replace the contents of a flat 4-sided surface such as a TV screen, billboard or even a clock face. To do this in Blender we need to make use of the powerful Motion Tracking and Compositing features, and we'll cover it all plus a few bonus topics in this tutorial. To keep this to a reasonable length, a basic grasp of the Blender's Movie Clip ...
Garbage & Core Mattes for Green Screen Removal in Blender (a.k.a Chroma Key, 40)
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In this follow-up video, we use the Keying Node's Garbage and Core Matte inputs to help with cleaning up our green screen editing in Blender's Compositor. We also cover some other topics, like doing a background preview within the Compositor and using Masks from the Movie Clip Editor. Time codes: 00:00 Intro / Recap of Previous Tutorial 02:33 Garbage & Core - what are they? 04:38 Garbage Matte ...
Green Screen Removal in Blender (a.k.a Chroma Key, 39)
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Let's see how to remove a green screen using a powerful node in Blender's Compositor. We will walk through all the steps and use trial & error as we adjust the settings to get the effect right. Note: if you just see a gray screen in the Video Editing tab after doing all that work, please try this fix: ua-cam.com/video/IfOcqk4jI3s/v-deo.html Time codes: 00:00 Intro 01:21 Scene Setup in VSE 03:03...
Mattes & Masks - How to use both in Blender (38)
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We've seen how to create masks in the Movie Clip Editor, we've seen how to create mattes in the Compositor. Now let's see how to combine the two to get a better result. There are 2 approaches shown in this video: within the Compositor and within the Video Sequence Editor. Time codes: 0:00 Intro 1:06 Compositor Approach 5:15 Video Sequence Editor Approach 6:19 Outro
Combining Blender project files (37)
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You can take work from one Blender project file and add it into another using the "Append" action from the File menu. In this short video, we'll see an example of copying a fully animated mask from one .blend file into another. Time codes: 0:00 Intro 1:01 The File - Append command
Compositing is Slower than VSE (36)
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Using the Compositor is much slower than normal work in the Video Sequence Editor. So a quick tip is to use the least amount that you need from those scenes - 2 methods are suggested here. Time codes: 0:00 Intro 2:06 Option 1: Cut 3:21 Option 2: Mute & Unmute
Static Background Removal in Blender 3.5 (35)
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Let's take a deep dive into Blender's Compositor to identify and remove the static background of a movie file. Think of it like doing "green screen" except it can be any combination of colours - as long as the subject doesn't share the same colours as the parts of the background they are in front of. Time codes: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Static Background Removal requirements 02:33 Scene, Marker setup ...
Intro to Matte Work (34)
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Now that we're familiar with Blender's Compositor, we can start exploring features it offers that cannot be done with the Video Sequence Editor. First up is editing mattes - that is to say, how to get Blender to distinguish between the subject and background in a movie file. By doing that, we can "extract" the subject and use it elsewhere. The footage recorded didn't give good clean results for...
Compositor Display, Viewer options (33)
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Continuing from our intro to Blender 3.5's Compositor, in this session we'll discuss 4 things: how to get a cleaner node layout; using multiple Viewer nodes; using the Split Viewer node; and treating the Composite node like a Viewer node. Time Codes 00:00 Intro 00:51 Recap from last session 03:26 Minimizing Nodes, Toggling Previews 06:18 Multiple Viewer Nodes 09:18 Split Viewer Node 11:52 Dual ...
Intro to the Compositor (32)
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Let's learn about the Compositor (aka Node Editor) of Blender 3.5. We'll see a bit on what it's about, how to add nodes and connect them. Our use case is applying a mask to a movie clip and then adding our Compositor output into the Video Sequence Editor. Time Codes 00:00 Intro 01:33 Our sample media 02:30 The Compositor workspace 03:54 Dedicated Scene 04:34 Getting started with Nodes! 06:15 Mo...
Motion Tracking in Blender 3 for Video Editing
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We'll take our time to learn about Motion Tracking in Blender to track a subject over time. The resulting Tracking Marker can be used for a variety of purposes. In this video, we will attach it to a mask so that the mask automatically follows our subject. Time codes: 00:00 Intro 01:30 Our sample footage with Timeline Markers 02:43 Creating a simple Mask 03:30 A Motion Tracking Workspace 04:46 T...
Blender 3.5.0 for Video Editing - What's New?
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Blender 3.5 was released a few days ago. Here are a handful of new things that caught my attention, plus a bug that affects scene strips. Time codes: 00:00 Intro 00:35 What's New with 3.5.0 01:37 Thumbnails 03:46 More about Overlays 04:54 Bug with Nested Scenes Here's a link to the 3.5 release notes: wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.5 Here's a link to the bug report for scene str...
Blender 3.4.1 for Video Editing - What's New?
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Blender 3.4.1 for Video Editing - What's New?
Combining Audio & Video with FFmpeg
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Combining Audio & Video with FFmpeg
Extracting Audio Tracks with FFmpeg
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Extracting Audio Tracks with FFmpeg
Using Masks in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (27)
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Using Masks in Blender's Video Sequence Editor (27)
Rotating Videos in Blender's Video Sequence Editor redux (25)
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Rotating Videos in Blender's Video Sequence Editor redux (25)
Creating a Speed Ramp in Blender (22)
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Creating a Speed Ramp in Blender (22)
Printing a B&W PDF when you don't have Black Ink
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Printing a B&W PDF when you don't have Black Ink
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Raspberry Pi OS ("Bullseye")
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Custom Keyboard Shortcuts for Raspberry Pi OS ("Bullseye")
Getting ALT-TAB back for your Raspberry Pi OS
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Getting ALT-TAB back for your Raspberry Pi OS
Baking Sounds = Driving your Animations through Audio (21)
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Baking Sounds = Driving your Animations through Audio (21)
Taking screenshots on Raspberry Pi OS
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Taking screenshots on Raspberry Pi OS
thank you
one of the rare tutorial that is actually helpful keep up the good work dude
Why prefer AAC rather than mp3
Great question! I had heard it was a better choice specifically for creating UA-cam content, so that's what I've been using for all my uploaded videos. It is still the recommendation on the Google website: support.google.com/youtube/answer/4603579?hl=en I use these same settings for creating home movies, too
Aha, so that's what it was! For a while there I was starting to think the compositor wasn't compatible with scene strips... Thank you!!
Glad I could help!
For some reason it won’t let me select anything let alone H264 in MP4
Hi, Blender has made huge user interface improvements since this tutorial was created. If you're not using the latest version, which is v4.2.0 as of July, then I recommend grabbing that off their website and giving that a try. In this latest version, Blender is already set up by default to export as a .mp4 video with H.264 encoding, plus with AAC audio encoding. So really, you won't even need to follow all these steps :)
@@mgc9002I’m using 4.0, so hopefully things are gonna work out
Thank you so much 😁
Welcome 😊
got it. need not to use an adjustment layer and use the mask directly on one of the movies!
Great, glad you got it working :)
nice movie! do you know hot make another video pass trough the mask on top of the first movie ?
THANK YOU!
waaaaa.... you are so handsome haha
your channel is treasure, really nice tutorials. So sad that not that many views on your videos, because content is really nice, may be try doin some more clickbaints in video title
Thanks, happy to get your comment! You're right, my views are really low, maybe I will try a more clickbait title next time
Doesn't work on Raspberry Pi 5.
It seems the new version of Raspberry Pi OS has changed how this whole process works, and likely this means it doesn't work on Raspberry Pi 4 either. When I find time, I'll see if I can figure out how to get it working in the new OS (but that won't happen for a while!)
@@mgc9002 Scrot doesn't do anything when executed as well.
Thank you for this great video!
Glad it was helpful!
I can't see the lower strip after changing mode to colour drop. Any ideas? blender 2.83
Hi, the process should work on that version. Can you please confirm you did all the steps? 1. Prepare the color strip: white for visible, black for see- through. 2. Hide this color strip. 3. Use this color strip as a Mask Modifier for the strip you want to control. 4. Set the Blend mode of this strip to Overdrop.
@@mgc9002 Yes, followed to the letter. The colour strip is not behaving like a mask. The top photo doesn't show bottom photo on over drop, All other blend modes seem to work on top srtip
Hmm, any chance you can try on version 2.93.4 of Blender? That's what I used in the tutorial. I'm wondering if it was a bug specifically in 2.83
@@mgc9002 yes, I'll download that in the morning. Tried my own mask using Affinity which worked in blender but still can't see the lower (2nd) movie track after the side shift. Many thanks for your help. Your tutorials are excellent
Thanks! Actually, if you can upgrade, maybe go all the way to the latest. Version 4 has lots of enhancements. I haven't tested mask modifiers specifically, but it ought to work. (I won't have time to test this week)
God bless you, this is gold.
Thank you :)
Been trying to render my video all day, and you showed me the thing that worked! Awesome tutorial man.
Thanks, glad to hear it helped!
Thanks for the tutorial, I really liked step by step explanation. Though when I do something in compositing mode and then add theis to the main scene my blender has some performance issues/frezes. When I preview the video it is garbled and jerky. Though I have quite powerful laptop. Do you know if there are some settings of blender which could make blender work better?
Glad you liked it. Unfortunately, I don't know how to improve the preview performance, which is also very poor for me both in Compositor and Video Sequence Editor. The good news is that your rendered output video file will play fine. What I usually do is set my scene frame range to just a few seconds long and render that as a test, then render the whole thing if the test looks OK.
What if I want to add a mask to a video I'm working on in the editor? Do I need to render the video just to be able to create and keyframe stuff like position and size of a mask?
Hi, unfortunately yes. Blender's Movie Clip Editor cannot use your video sequence editor work as a source, so you will have to render the video out.
@@mgc9002 thanks for the quick answer! I ended up using a "color" object (in the sequence editor) as a mask and it worked out great!
I wonder if he edits these videos in blender
Oh, I totally do! I use Blender for practically all my video editing :)
Not what I was looking for, but I did learn about "markers" so thank you for a helpful video.
Glad you got something out of it
Thank you. I just spent an hour searching and this is the only video that actually talks about how to create a mask. All others assume you already have one made
You're welcome, happy to hear you found what you were looking for
this wasn't working for me. so i brain stormed and found another very effective way to do it. but thanks for guidance.
Hi, can you please share your solution with me? I'd like to try it out myself and put the steps in the show notes so other people can benefit from your efforts
Not being rude, but by keep pressing fast forward, i finally make the video useful here. People will find these type of tutorial useful if it was in 2-mins long.
Thanks for taking the time to write. Long form content is definitely my style, but I see your point. I should turn some of these videos into UA-cam Shorts, which will be more valuable to people that want fast answers
you wrong
Great video series! I was thinking, if the word "Scene" played the role of the word "It" in Monty Python's Holy Grail, your viewers would be screaming a lot. "Ahhh!! He said it again!!"
Hehehe, that's funny to think of 😀 "Oh! He said 'scene' again! Aaugh! I said 'scene'! Ooh! I said 'scene' again!
Thanks! This helped a lot
Glad to hear!
I think you should have adjusted the spill removal, too. There's a lot of extra around your hair at the starting shot.
You're probably right. Truth is, my green screen skills are a bit basic so I kept my video to just the basics!
I'd recommend viewing viewer node in image panel so you can use normal zoom and pan features and do not need to look past the node network to see what you're working with.
Thanks for sharing. I also like using the Image Editor for that exact reason. But I didn't show it here because I was trying to keep the overall length down :)
Thanks really intersting
You're welcome
for most cases it's better to convert the gif to an mp4 and then insert that into the blender timeline. here's how to do that with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i animated.gif -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" video.mp4 thanks for the video :)
Thanks for sharing! I'll have to give this a try sometime. I believe the new versions of Blender can natively import animated GIFs now, but good to know and I am interested to see if it impacts the image quality at all
Hello Michael, Do you know what do I wrong during export/import custom transitions in Blender 2.8+? I have found how can I export a custom transition (25 frames long), but when I import it, after the transition is done (25 frames), the object become invisible where I added the transition as strip mask. Maybe I exported the custom animation in a wrong way. The original custom transition was working fine.
Thank you. I looked everywhere else it seems before discovering this beautifully clear explanation of what I was looking for
Glad it was helpful!
thank you so much
Good and easy to follow
Wow this was amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!
You bet! FFmpeg is an awesome tool
Cool, thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, this is quite helpful Question: I'd like to apply masks to an image, that I end up moving around and zoom in at different times. Can I apply masks to an image, so the masked parts move with it? Specifically I'm looking to highlight parts of a map, and then move the map around and zoom in on it with the areas still highlighted I'm mostly just not sure on where to begin with this. I figured masks would be a good start
Hi there. It is possible, and not too hard as long as the image you have is the same resolution as your scene/project. (In my experience, it just doesn't work to create a mask for a high resolution image and then apply that in a lower resolution scene.) What can work is applying the mask to the image strip, then creating a Meta strip (group) containing your image strip and applying moves/zooms to the Meta strip. Don't try to directly animate the image strip, because the mask isn't affected by those transforms, so it won't be selecting the part of the map that you wanted. Hope that makes sense, let me know if it's not clear
thank you!!
didnt work disliked
worked perfectly; liked video, disliked comment
Thank you! This really saved me today
This was really helpful, thank you fake markplier <3
Haha, I got a literal LOL from your comment :)
Best description ever!
can you help me how to remove the vocals from video sir? only instrument remain...
OOOOOH🤦♂️ I didnt know i needed to change the view to use the proxy haha I was like "this didnt help AT ALL" when I tried before this haha
i am working on windows and it s giving me error when i try to use grep
Lol 😂
I appreciate the tip to make the CPU prioritize rendering instead of showing a preview!
You save me. Love you <3
Thank you, I frequently run into this problem
Thank you for the video! I am about to switch from FCP (mighty tool on macOS) to blender. I want to come back to Windows from the OS system. So I am glad, here such a playlist. It would be nice, if Blender video editing part, would become more popular. Maybe one day, devs would add compressor for audio (if we bring audio strips together there would be no “klicking” anymore) for example, or simpler way to extract the Green screen. There are so much things, could be pushed in video editing. Developing them it would make blender way more popular☺️. Great channel, great content 👍🍀
@@mgc9002 yes, the sound improvement would be great 😊. But don’t want to be naughty. Blender is still free
following along, opened my video file. There is no "new button" at least by default still looking. I have the movie clip editor open
Are you using the new Blender 4.0? I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I hear the user interface has changed ...
Hello. I just checked the new Blender v4.0 and the interface is roughly the same. I'm thinking there are 2 possible reasons you don't see the "New" button: 1) Your workspace layout is a bit too narrow so the button isn't visible. Try to expand the width of this area by clicking and dragging on the side border. Alternatively, use the middle mouse button to click and drag on the menu bar to drag across and see the New button. 2) You may have already created a mask? Once you click New, the New button is replaced with a text field that shows the name of the mask, which is simply named "Mask". In this case, you can proceed with the next step of adding a mask shape. Or you can create a new mask by clicking what looks like a copy button, 2 places to the right of the mask name text field. Hope this helps!