Blender Special Effects

What ever the current official build is, currently an “.A” release i think. Meaning big bugs have been fixed. However I personally live on the bleeding edge with daily builds from the Blender build bot. There are just to many goodies for me to resist.

I will admit though that when making Dream Big I stuck with one build through the job.

Next stop is to do alpha and mask. I want to take a photo or video and cut a hole into it to let something show through.

Draw a mask in UV Image editor or use movie clip editor, especially if you need to track the mask to something that moves in frame.

I hope to continue to post this forum. Thanks for helping me. I am looking to get a new book. I think I know how to make my own reference.


Here is some of what I am doing.

You might want to consider using the vse transform addon. It lets you use all the standard grab scale and rotate functions from 3d view but on video strips.

I may use the Animation tools first then VSE later.
There are no video’s on the VSE at this time.
I see there is more than one way of doing something.
I will have to learn as many as I can.

Still working.