Learn how to create transitions in Blender's sequence editor in this new videotutorial by Paul Caggegi.
Paul writes:
Continuing on from the "Video Editing in Blender - Introduction" Paul takes you through adding and working with simple transitions. Learn how to add cross fades, wipes and a "fade-to-black" using the transition strip, as well as how to key-frame a transition.
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Paul, your style of presentation is quite thoughtful, professional and thoroughly instructive. No fumbling, no jerky cursor, no confusion, just straightforward information presented in a most pleasant manner. Excellent job!
The general advice seems to be to avoid including a Scene in the video-editor timeline, because rendering it frame-by-frame while you’re trying to do previews would take too long. Instead, you should render out the whole Scene animation, then import it back into the video editor as a video sequence, already prerendered.
However, there is one case where directly including a Scene can work: where the scene just contains, for example, a simple text block for use as a video title. This can render quite quickly, fast enough not to slow down video editing too much. Also it is easy to change around, without having to render it all out and bring it back in again each time.
Also enabling "AV Sync" and "Frame drop" from the timeline Playback menu will also speed up playback. I've not yet tried editing scenes, but it could be the subject of a future tutorial... as well as titles! Cheers for the head's up.