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Movie Making

Movies are made by piecing together Video or Movie Files.

Piecing together or compiling takes place in the Video Editing Workspace.

In attempting to describe the process of Movie Making, definitions and terminology begin to be

somewhat confusing since assumptions made thoughout the book may be contradicting. When

researching definitions to differentiate between such terms as; Movie, Video, Video Clip,

Animation, Animation Sequence etc., sources quickly jump to the description of file formats and

Codecs. This soon leads to a quagmire of confusion when such terms are

foreign and

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To assist in understanding the process the following terminology will be used which will define a

road map for the Movie Making process.

A Movie File: Will be considered as a final compilation including Video files, Audio files and

Special Effects. This type of File is in a Movie File Format.

A Video File: Will be considered as the File which is produced (Rendered) from an Animation

Sequence. This type of File is also Rendered in a Movie File Format.

File Formats are determined by the type of Codec employed when Rendering.

In simple terms a Codec is computer code that compresses Video and Audio data into a

manageable size for viewing, file transfer and storage.

An Animation Sequence is the Animation viewed in the 2D Animation Workspace before

Rendering takes place. Different Sequences may be housed in different Scenes or in different

Blender Files.

The Animation Sequence is produced by the manipulation of Strokes in the 2D Viewport Editor at

different Keyframes in the Timeline Editors.

Piecing together the Files is performed in Blender's in built Video Sequence Editor (VSE). The

VSE is found in the Video Editing Workspace.

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