Blender Video Editing
Video in Blender 5.2 - Video Sequencer edits from Python (clips, image sequences...
Install
npx skills add EL4CTEO/blender-skills --skill blender-video-editing -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- EL4CTEO/blender-skills651
- Category
- Media
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,127 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Video in Blender 5.2 - Video Sequencer edits from Python (clips, image sequences, crossfades, titles, music fades, proxies, color management, H.264/AAC output) and motion tracking (feature detection, camera solve, scene orientation, tripod and plane tracking, stabilization) for VFX shots. Use to cut renders/footage together or match-move a camera.
Video editing and tracking
The execution model is in blender-core. Rendering the 3D shots and the compositor (5.0 API) are in blender-rendering.
One call each
scripts/vse_edit.py -- --clips //renders/sh010/ //renders/sh020/ //logo.png --crossfade 12 --title "Project" --audio //music.wav --out //edit.mp4 --render
scripts/vse_edit.py -- --clips a.mp4 b.mp4 c.mp4 --crossfade 0 --fps 24 --out //review/f_#### --render # hard cuts to PNG
import track_camera; print(track_camera.run(clip="C:/shots/sh010.mp4", focal=35, sensor=36)) # live/MCP only
vse_edit.py
- Builds into its own
Editscene (--scene), so 3D scenes stay untouched. Clips go on alternating channels 1/2, crossfades (CROSS) on 3, the title on 4, clip audio on 6/7 (movies get their sound strip), and music on 8 (trimmed to the edit with a--audio-fadevolume fade-out). - A clip may be a movie, a still (
--still-seconds), a folder of frames, or a####pattern. Each crossfade overlaps the previous clip by--crossfadeframes, so the edit gets shorter by that much per cut. Re-running replaces the previous edit. - Sets view transform Standard: footage must pass through untouched (measured: AgX turned pure red into 0.86/0.23/0.13). Grade on purpose with strip modifiers instead.
- Output:
.mp4/.mov/.mkv= H.264 (CRF high, preset good) + AAC 192k stereo. Any other path = PNG frames. 5.0+ needsimage_settings.media_type = "VIDEO"beforefile_format = "FFMPEG". It reports the file size, and the test decodes it back (frame count, size).
