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>Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :)

I figure most people who use blender for animation know about it considering that's the basic way you turn your rendered frames into a video file.

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You can render frames directly to a video file (ffmpeg option), which I suspect a lot of beginners or casual users do. You can also use the compositor to turn a prerendered frame sequence into a video file. Lastly I suspect most users prefer video editing in another program such as Resolve. I get the inpression the VSE is nit used much because it occupies a narrow space of “need some basic cutting abilities but no transforms, titles, or effects”. Hopefully someone will continue the work of improving transforms and effects and even add 3 point editing someday

Beginners do that exactly until the first time they have a render crash halfway through, then they learn about rendering each frame as an image (yes I learned this lesson the hard way)

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