Welcome to Blender.LectureEdit’s documentation!

Blender.LectureEdit is a script library for the video creation software Blender, that facilitates the editing of lecture videos, in which feature a speaker, who is visible in front of their presentation slides. It automates routine tasks in the editing of such videos, which saves time, makes the videos of a series of lectures more consistent and allows for corrections in the slide deck without major re-editing of the video or even re-recording of the lecture.

Features

• Facilitation of the synchronization of multiple camera tracks

• Automated setup of the compositing for processing green screen recordings of the speaker

• Exporting the slide transition times and starting times of animations to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation

• Normalization of the audio track’s loudness

• Automation of blending out the speaker for certain slides

Credits

Blender.LectureEdit has been created and is maintained in the scope of the CYSTINET-Africa project. This project is a coalition of five universities in Tanzania, Zambia, Mosambique and Munich to do research on medical and economic aspects of the Taenia solium tapeworm. One goal of this project is to create an eLearning course about Taenia solium for students of veterinary and human medicine. Blender and Blender.LectureEdit are used to edit the lecture videos for this course.

Contents:

• A step-by-step guide
  • Setup
  • Video Synchronization
  • Cutting the video
  • Processing the audio
  • Marking the slide transitions
  • Setting up the green screen processing
  • Merging it all together
• Additional knowledge
  • What has to be done, when the PowerPoint slides have changed?
  • Adjusting the default settings
  • File links
  • Using Blender
  • Hints for recording a lecture video
• Developer information
  • Generating the documentation