Is Blender a good program to make 3D titles for a video?

Rikki · 12 Apr 2012 at 16:20

Just curious as I use Vegas for video editing and am quite happy with it but for titles Im stuck and dont want to jump into After Effects are penny count is quite low.

If Blender is good for it I'll get myself a starter book on the Kindle and get cracking.

Thanks

R.

PS: Or is there other software out there thats better suited?

gord · 12 Apr 2012 at 16:48

I think Blender is fantastic. The latest version includes the cycles renderer too, fairly new bit of kit which uses your graphics card for rendering and is considerably more realistic.

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/introduction-to-cycles

That said, a lot of title sequences don't really need a pre-rendered approach, but if AE is out of reach then I'd use Blender too.

Rikki · 12 Apr 2012 at 16:56

Nice one, any hints and tips for a complete noob?

My experience is in photography and video, plus some audio.

This is about as far as I can take Vegas using photoshop for title segments so dont laugh : http://youtu.be/FY9d9CwpMnc

Thanks

R.

gord · 12 Apr 2012 at 17:02

Probably best to start out with the Blender internal renderer, learn that, get to grips with the program then move onto cycles. The official tuts are the best place to begin. http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/

And don't be scared off!

Chaos · 12 Apr 2012 at 23:05

Blender has quite a steep learning curve but there is a lot of tutorials to get up to speed with it.

For starting out learning the app I would use -

http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html
http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/content.php?223
http://cgcookie.com/blender/

Blender guru did some tutorials on titles

http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/create-a-sizzling-title-intro
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/create-a-shattered-glass-title-animation

Rikki · 13 Apr 2012 at 00:55

Spot on guys, thanks for that!

Got myself some learning to do now

Rikki · 13 Apr 2012 at 01:03

Chaos - I think you nailed it with the title intro guide on Vimeo! Will start there and work along side the guide to get a feel for it all and see where it takes me

bloodiedathame · 13 Apr 2012 at 01:33

You could go down the C4D route if you have that option. I think it's a great bit of software, easy to pick up, but not free like Blender.

Rikki · 13 Apr 2012 at 09:47

LOL not free at all with the starter edition costing near on £800 and rising to £3,300 for the full edition!

I think Ill dabble with Blender first and see how it goes, £800's more than my full Vegas and plug in suite cost at the moment