Roger Wickes - Blender DVD/Video Compositing Tutorials - Training Videos Review

I always try to keep my eyes open for good Blender video tutorials, for the most part I am pretty good at keeping up to date with what is out there.

However...

I missed one excellent source of good quality videos on various topics concerning Blenders Video Sequence Editor, Node Editor and various other items. Roger Wickes (PapaSmurf), has a very good collection of Blender videos.

The rough running time is over 3 hours for all the videos.

The topics covered are:

• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Integration
• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Video Sequence Editor
• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Layout
• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Node Editor Window Controls
• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Node Controls
• Blender DVD Compositing - Introduction - Noodle
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Titles & Credits
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Local Distortion
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Fake Spot Lighting
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Lighting with Nodes
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Fake Lighting via CGI
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - GreenScreen using Key Nodes
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Difference Keying
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Manual Keyframing and Match Moving
• Blender DVD Compositing - Special Effects - Masking
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Formats
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Flying Camera Rig
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Flying Video
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Images into Nodes
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Pan and Zoom
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Copy and Translate
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Uniform Distortion using Flying Camera
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Rotate
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Uniform Scale
• Blender DVD Compositing - Conversion and Distortion - Rotate
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - Theory
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - Common Formats
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - Buttons
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - RGB Channels
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - YCbCr Channels
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - HSV Values
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - False Color
• Blender DVD Compositing - Formats and Channels - HSV Hues

More information on how to view and & donate towards the tutorials can be gotten from Roger's website at : http://wickes.webs.com/compositingtutorials.htm

It's true that there are many video tutorials on the web but the topics covered by Wickes in his videos tend to be the less well known stuff and this makes them very useful. They are slightly out of date for modern Blender versions, but on the whole they are still very useful.

You should also check out the wiki.blender.org as Roger has written some very good entries.

Very good videos, well worth the time.

Review Score 80%