Sequencer Tools

Jump to Video Editing Workspace - Brings you to the Video Editing Workspace.
Jump back to Camera in Scene - place the playhead on a video or scene strip you want to jump back to. Press the button or double click (with the Maurits Valk Keymap installed) to jump back to the Storyboarding Workspace, Scene, Camera and Frame.
Auto Set Frame Range - this sets the Edit Scene frame range to the first frame of the first strip and end frame to the last frame of the last strip after using the Trim Left/Right operators.
Frame on Render Range - frames the view on the render range. Helpful to reset the view to see the entire sequence after using Trim Left/Right.
Trim Left/Right - will cut the strip at the Playhead and then delete the strip to the left/right of the playhead and move all strips over to the playhead.
- Works best with only one channel of strips
- Blender 5.1 comes with a Ripple Edit tool that works the same way. The Whippet tool is slightly more accurate since you’re trimming from where the playhead is.
Shuffle Left/Right - shuffles the selected strip(s) to the left or right of the subsequent strip.
Sync Scene Time - when enabled it will drive the storyboard scenes from the Sequencer in the Storyboarding Workspace. This is on by default in the Storyboarding Workspace but off in the Video Editing Workspace.

Sequence N-Panels

To access the Sequencer Tools, open the N-Panel in the Sequencer and Preview types in a Sequencer area. Whippet provides custom strip Metadata Overlay, Shot Labels and EDL Export features to help you share your reels.

Preview N-Panel

Enter the relevant information and press Build Overlay Tracks. This will create a meta strip in Channel 10 with several text strips showing each shot’s information.

Toggle Hide Overlays to mute the Meta Strip.

Sequencer N-Panel

Take Versions

Playblasting a camera again will increment the mp4 filename ‘_T01, _T02, _T03, etc’ which represent Take Versions. This is considered a new take of an existing shot. Playblasting a camera a second time will not import a video strip again. Instead, to access that Take Version, RIGHT+CLICK on the existing video strip and go to the bottom of the menu under Take Version > Select Take Version. This allows you to update the shot or go back to a previous version of a shot.

If you rename your strips to use Shot Labels, you can still update the take version because it references the camera name, not the shot label name.

If you playblast several cameras at the same time with existing video strips in the VSE, you can batch update multiple video strips to the latest version by multi-selecting the video strips you want to update and pressing Update to Latest Take Version in the Sequencer N-Panel Menu. This will use the latest version for each video strip.

Trimming

Trim Left/Right will cut the strip at the Playhead and then delete the strip to the left/right of the playhead and move all strips over to the playhead. It’s a quick way to remove part of a video strip and slide everything over without having to do multiple steps manually. Trimming Left will move all strips after trimming over so the first scene start frame is 1.

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Shuffle

Shot Labels

EDL Export

VSE Tips

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