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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

Glad I could help!

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

Welcome 😊

Great, glad you got it working :)

Thanks, happy to get your comment! You're right, my views are really low, maybe I will try a more clickbait title next time

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.

Glad it was helpful!

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)

Thank you :)

Thanks, glad to hear it helped!

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.

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!

Oh, I totally do! I use Blender for practically all my video editing :)

Glad you got something out of it

You're welcome, happy to hear you found what you were looking for

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

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

Hehehe, that's funny to think of 😀 "Oh! He said 'scene' again! Aaugh! I said 'scene'! Ooh! I said 'scene' again!

Glad to hear!

You're probably right. Truth is, my green screen skills are a bit basic so I kept my video to just the basics!

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 :)

You're welcome

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

Glad it was helpful!

You bet! FFmpeg is an awesome tool

Thanks for watching!

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

worked perfectly; liked video, disliked comment

Haha, I got a literal LOL from your comment :)

Best description ever!

@@mgc9002 yes, the sound improvement would be great 😊. But don’t want to be naughty. Blender is still free

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!