Editors

View Menu

The Video Sequence Editor is two editors in one. The Preview sequencer view is a preview window. Here plays the video. The Sequencer sequencer view is the view that contains the video and audio strips.

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Type of Sequencer View

The view menu for Sequencer/Preview contains the same menu items than in the other two views. So we won't explicitely list it here again.

The View menu contains all View related tools.

Shows or hides the toolbar at the left.

Shows or hides the sidebar at the right in the viewport.

Entry	What it does
Tool Settings	Show or hide the tool settings at the top.
Tool shelf tabs	Show or hide the tool shelf tabs in the tool shelf.
Playback Controls	Reveals the footer with the playback controls.

Annotations (Legacy) submenu

This group of operators is useful to take notes without changing tool-shelf operators. These notes can be colored in the View tab of the Property Shelf. Each layer is a single color. You can also animate the notes with keyframes, editable in the dopesheet.

Note: These are legacy operators, meaning they are equally available in the Toolshelf as a modal operator.

Entry	What it does
Draw Annotation	Starts the annotation free hand draw tool in the editor.
Draw Line Annotation	Starts the annotation line draw tool to draw straight lines in the editor.
Draw Polyline Annotation	Starts the annotation Polyline draw tool in the editor which allows to draw multiple connected straight lines in the editor.
Erase Annotation	Starts the annotation erase tool in the editor which erases any strokes in the editor.
Add Annotation Layer	Starts a new annotation layer.
Erase Annotation Active Keyframe	Erases the active keyframe of the annotation.

Entry	What it does
Zoom In	Zooms in.
Zoom Out	Zooms out.
Zoom Border	Draw a rectangle around the target area to zoom in or out. Left mouse button zoooms in. Middle mouse button zooms out.

Zoom

A set of predefined zoom factors.

Entry	What it does
Fit Preview in Window	Zooms in or out until the video displays fitting in the viewport.
Frame Selected	Centers the selection and zooms to fit.

Proxy

Proxy works just with movie or image strips. What it does is to create a smaller set of preview images. This speeds up the calculation while you are at editing the video. The final result uses the final images again then.

Setup

Calls a panel where you can choose the resolution of the proxy images. Clicking OK starts the creation process.

Rebuild

Recreates the proxy images

Scene Render Size

What render size the display should choose.

Entry	What it does
Refresh All	Refresh the sequence editor.
Sequence render Image	Renders an image of the current frame.
Sequence render Animation	Renders the animation in the preview range.
Toggle Sequencer/Preview	Toggles the type of sequencer view between Sequencer or Preview.

The available pie menus for the sequencer in View mode.

Area

This menu contains general view functionality. And exists in most other editor types too.

Toggle Quad view

Displays the 3D View divided into four split screen parts. Note that the orthographic views cannot be switched in this mode. They remain orthographic, you cannot rotate them.

To return to single view reuse the menu item in the View menu.

Entry	What it does
Horizontal Split	Splits the current view horizontally into two independent editor windows.
Vertical Split	Splits the current view vertically into two independent editor windows.

Duplicate Area into New Window

Duplicate Area into New Window makes the selected editor window floating. You can then drag it around at the monitor. It is not connected with the rest of the UI anymore.

A separated window cannot be merged into the main window again. You have to close it when not longer needed.

Entry	What it does
Toggle Maximize Area	Displays the editor maximized with menus. To return from the maximized view press hotkey `Ctrl` + `Space` bar. Or reuse the menu item in the area menu.
Toggle Full screen Area	Displays the editor maximized without menus. To return from the full screen view press hotkey `Ctrl` + `Alt` + `Space` bar.
Close Area	Closes the area window.

The View menu contains all View related tools.

Shows or hides the toolbar at the left.

Shows or hides the sidebar at the right in the viewport.

Tool Settings

Show or hide the tool settings at the top.

Adjust Last Operation

Displays the Adjust last operation panel down left.

Entry	What it does
Channels	Display the channels in front of the timeline
Tool Shelf Tabs	Show or hide the tool shelf tabs in the tool shelf.
Footer	Shows the footer.
Zoom In	Zooms in.
Zoom Out	Zooms out.
Zoom Border	Zooms to the selection.
Frame all	Zooms in or out to display all elements fitting into the view.

Frame Scene Range / Frame Preview Range

This menu item changes the name and the icon, dependant of if the Use Preview range is activated. Which can be done besides the play elements in the Timeline editor or in the footer.

Resize the horizontal view to the current scene or preview frame range.

Entry	What it does
Go to current frame	Centers the view at the current frame.
Frame selected	Zooms in or out to display the currently selected element fitting into the view.
Refresh all	Refreshes the sequence editor.
Sequence render Image	Renders an image of the current frame.
Sequence render Animation	Renders the animation in the preview range.
Toggle Sequencer/Preview	Toggles the type of sequencer view between Sequencer or Preview.

The available pie menus for the sequencer in Sequencer mode.