GDQuest / blender-power-sequencer

Add-on for video editing in Blender 3D: edit videos faster! Included in Blender 2.81+
https://gdquest.com/blender/power-sequencer/
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[DOCS] Add "import local footage" #51

Closed davcri closed 6 years ago

davcri commented 6 years ago

Here it is!
Let me know if there is something, in either form or content, that can be improved!

EDIT: changed "Blender root folder" to "Blender project folder".


Import local footage

Description: imports all images from a folder named IMG.

How to use it:

  1. Create a folder named IMG inside your Blender project folder (where the .blend file is)
  2. Put images inside this folder
  3. Go in Blender sequencer:
    1. Press SPACE
    2. Type ps importer
    3. Press ENTER

Note: Blender project needs to be saved before using this feature.

import_local_footage

Images will be stretched, by default, to fit the entire screen; if you want to keep the original size, read the next section.

NathanLovato commented 6 years ago

Actually it imports more than this. Doing a video for it in a moment, after I'm done with the accounting. You can also have video and audio folders in which it'll look for, well, video and audio. If you use the keymap that ships with the add-on you can press Ctrl Shift I at the moment.

davcri commented 6 years ago

Actually it imports more than this.

My fault, I totally forgot about video and audio import! Tomorrow I'll work on completing this doc.

davcri commented 6 years ago

New one:


Import local footage CtrlShiftI

Imports all images, videos and audios from folders named respectively: img, video and audio.

import-local-footage

How to use

  1. Create folders named img, video and audio inside your Blender project folder (where your .blend file is)
  2. Put your source images, videos and audio files in the corresponding folders
  3. In Blender:
    1. Press SPACE
    2. Type import
    3. Select PS.Import Local Footage and press ENTER

You must save your Blender project before you use this feature.

NathanLovato commented 6 years ago

Thank you very much! The GIF is excellent. I just edited your post to give you a sense for writing suggestions:

On top of that, if you're going to spend time helping me, we should set a repo to store the docs so you can upload your changes directly. What do you think?

I'm not sure about how to handle each tool's options, when you press F6 after you called the operator. For now we can leave them out but I've looked into possible solutions to automate the extraction of docstrings/descriptions from python. There's the built-in pydoc module for instance, but you'd need a custom solution to extract the description of Blender properties. In any no one should copy them by hand. Anyway it's not a priority for now.

davcri commented 6 years ago

Ok I wrote down your tips on the docs repo (https://github.com/GDquest/Blender-power-sequencer-docs), so also others can read them.

For the actual documentation, I created a docs folder in the same repo.

[...] In any no one should copy them by hand. Anyway it's not a priority for now.

I agree on that one, when the docs about the main 5 features are completed I'll think about something.

NathanLovato commented 6 years ago

Closing all docs issues, let's open new tasks in https://github.com/GDquest/Blender-power-sequencer-docs/