Comment by nickjj
Yep, it's not really aimed at this style of video editing.
Blender is amazingly designed and robust but it's really optimized for 3D design, not editing screencasts.
Yep, it's not really aimed at this style of video editing.
Blender is amazingly designed and robust but it's really optimized for 3D design, not editing screencasts.
I have quite some time ago.
I tried 5 just now and while it looks familiar to a standard video editor it's missing a lot of features Camtasia and other video editors mentioned here have.
It also feels like using a spaceship when all I want to do is walk around the block. I like learning new things but to me, efficiency for the things I do a lot wins in the end. I'm sure I can design anything I could ever imagine in Blender but if I need to do a lot of complicated workflows for really basic things every time, all of that gets thrown out the window.
My goto things in a video editor is cutting, ripple delete, adding text callouts with minor effects, highlighting certain areas, zooming into certain areas and wanting to quickly take my original OBS source and render an mp4. Ideally it would run well on lower end hardware and also support 2x playback while editing (saves a lot of time).
Have you looked at the new stuff in Blender 5? I've never used it for video editing, but the release notes claim that they did a bunch of stuff with the sequencer in 5.0. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/#vse