It turns out that Blender has a built-in mode called the Video Sequence Editor (VSE) and you can use it with Blender's Python API. Let's explore how it works, try some examples, and eventually write a script to overlay text on a video!
Blog post: https://github.com/pagekey/blog/blob/...
Source code: https://github.com/pagekey/education/...
Discord: / discord
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Overview
0:47 (1) Importing common code
1:22 (2) Add a video as a plane
2:20 (3) Render video using VSE
3:08 (4) Overlaying text on video
3:52 New GitLab!
4:10 What's Next: Video Editing Library
Audio credit:
Little Umbrellas - Track Tribe
Final Girl - Jeremy Blake