Header

Header

Toolbar T

Show or hide the Toolbar.

Sidebar N

Show or hide the Sidebar.

Tool Settings

Show or hide the settings for the currently selected tool.

Preview During Transform

When enabled, previews the strip’s new first/last frame while dragging its left/right handle.

Refresh All

Reloads external files and refreshes the current frame preview. This is useful when you modified an external file or made a change in a scene that Blender didn’t detect.

Frame Selected

Pan and zoom the view to focus on the selected image.

Fit Preview in Window Home

Pan and zoom the view so that the entire video is visible. This enables Zoom to Fit.

Zoom

Menu with convenient zoom levels and operations. The zoom levels are calculated based on the images resolution compared to the screen resolution.

12.5% (1:8) Numpad8 zoom out to a factor of 12.5%.
25% (1:4) Numpad4 zoom out to a factor of 25%.
50% (1:2) Numpad2 zoom out to a factor of 50%.
100% (1:1) Numpad1 resets the zoom to 100%.
200% (2:1) Ctrl-Numpad2 zoom in to a factor of 200%.
400% (4:1) Ctrl-Numpad4 zoom in to a factor of 400%.
800% (8:1) Ctrl-Numpad8 zoom in to a factor of 800%.
Zoom In/Out Wheel

Zooms the view in or out.

Zoom to Fit Shift-Home

Like Frame All, but uses as much space in the editor as possible.

Zoom Region Shift-B

Zoom in the view to the nearest item contained in the border.

Auto Zoom

As long as this option is enabled, the preview will automatically zoom to keep the video size synchronized with the editor size.

Proxy

See Proxy.

Sequence Render Image

Show the current frame preview as a Render Result where you can save it as an image file.

Sequence Render Animation

Save previews of the frames in the scene range (or the preview range, if active) to a video file or a series of image files. See the Output panel for details.

Note

Sequence Render Image and Sequence Render Animation don’t render the final video by default – specifically, they don’t render Scene Strips, instead using the preview’s shading mode (which is initially Solid).

To output a video where the Scene Strips are rendered, use the Render menu in the top-bar, or change Sidebar ‣ View ‣ Scene Strip Display ‣ Shading to Rendered.

Export Subtitles

Exports Text strips, which can act as subtitles, to a SubRip file (.srt). The exported file contains all Text strips in the video sequence.

Toggle Sequencer/Preview Ctrl-Tab

Switch the editor mode between Sequencer and Preview.

Area

Area controls. See the user interface documentation for more information.

See Selecting.

See Editing.

Clear

Resets the position, rotation, or scale of the selected images.

Apply

Scale to Fit

Resizes the selected images so that they’re as large as possible while still fitting completely inside the video. They don’t get cropped, and their aspect ratio stays the same.

Scale to Fill

Resizes the selected images to that they fill the entire video space. They may get cropped, but their aspect ratio stays the same.

Stretch to Fill

Resizes the selected images to match the video dimensions. They don’t get cropped, but their aspect ratio may change.