2024-08-21 VSE Workshop

[tintwotin]

Some 4yr old write-ups on the ambition of using the VSE as the storytelling hub of Blender:

Make Blender a realtime storytelling tool(by moving sequences out of scenes)

GSoC - ideas for the Video Sequence Editor

Some ideas for GSoC VSE projects - we should aim for small well defined ideas - so which idea would be the best suited? https://blender.chat/channel/vse First I want share, what I see as the top 3 of challenges for the VSE, basically I think the VSE should become the hub for realtime story development and virtual storytelling inside Blender: The biggest all time challenge is INTEGRATION, simply because without it, the VSE go no raison d’etre. Or in other words if the VSE is directly integrate…

The poorly exposed Scene Strip properties, which results in bad UX:

The Scene Stip contains hidden and convoluted options, which are not very user friendly. In the Input there are only two options: [image] Camera and Sequencer, however it is also possible to get Compositor output into the sequencer, but this option is not exposed in the enum, and it should. To get the compositor output into the scene strip, the users need to have these settings(3.0): Properties > Post Processing > Compositor to ON View > Scene Strip Display > Rendered Scene Strip > Input…

Proposal: Using compositor nodes on VSE strips

Moving the VSE content out of scene data structure would allow for much better integration into the various editors including the compositor since it would make it possible to access the current scene in scene strips(which was possible up to 2.79) and thereby avoid the problems of recursion(both in and out of the sequencer and compositor). So, for me, this is a superior solution. Suggestion: Make the Sequencer contents into data-block, which can override the switched to Scene-Sequencer contents …