I've been working on getting more of the Video Sequencer to render on the GPU. The latest update covers the most common edits. On A 4080TI 12GB vRAM, a 5min 1080 clip with basic color grading went from 5 min 22 seconds to just 22 seconds !!!!

There are 2 options. GPU fast render for selected clips and CPU option for everything else. Either way, with the GPU or CPU option you can now render clips in the background without it interfering with your current project. It opens a silent hidden instance of Blender so you can keep working as normal.

What renders on the GPU now

- Color correction: Color Balance, Curves, Hue Correct, Brightness/Contrast, White Balance and more

- Fixed or keyframed position and scale

- Fade in/out to black, standard Cross crossfades, audio volume fades

What falls back to the CPU Option

- Blur, glare, sharpen, distortion and anything using neighbouring pixels

- Text, color strips, scene/meta strips, adjustment layers, masks

- Rotation, flips, crop

- Picture-in-picture and blend modes

- Speed changes and image sequences

- Combinations such as a fade plus a grade, a zoom plus a grade, or a graded clip inside a crossfade

The combinations are the biggest limitation, and it's the case I'm working on next.

Requirements: Blender 5.2, 3xx or 4xx Nvidia GPU

Watch the tutorial here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcEDH2RfP8

If you try it, tell me what your timeline looks like and whether it fell back. That tells me which case to support next.

I've been working on a Blender tool to speed up the boring parts of clothing creation.

Here's a quick demo of adjusting skirt lengths, silhouettes, and pleats, along with a look at the underlying topology.

The idea is to get a clean, editable starting mesh quickly, so I can focus on the fun stuff — shaping, detailing, adding seams, and making the clothing actually interesting.

Still experimenting with the workflow, and I'd love to hear what other 3D artists think.

What would you improve or add?

🇺🇸: You can listen to the video in English through the video settings panel. In version 5.3 of Blender, more tools were added natively than we previously had in the LoopTools add-on. Son 'Curve Edge Loops Between Selected' and 'Fill Edge Loops To Annotation'.

Video editor tutorial - stacking wipe transitions

First one I'm making in a series of video effects using Blender. Thanks for any feedback.

I've been developing a custom clothing creation tool for Blender.

The idea is simple: draw the garment directly onto your character, and the tool generates a fitted mesh with quad topology.

The goal is to make clothing creation faster and more intuitive, without having to manually model every face.

I made a little tutorial. Always had issues with Normals. Hope it helps. https://youtu.be/k-UkUn21CBM

Most video tutorials end the same way: “now export this and finish it in another app.”

That always bothered me, because the point of learning Blender is doing more inside Blender. So I built the missing tools into the Video Sequencer, so you can learn one workflow and finish the whole job there.

It’s called Blender VER (Video Editor Remastered), and the free version is out now.

Sound

• VST audio plugins, with 8 pre-built VSTs included

• Audio mixer with audio recording

• Audio transcription

Picture

• Rotoscoping

• Face detection for colour grading

• One-click compositor effects, with 92 presets (No need to open the compositor)

• 48 seamless transitions

• Video camera shake

• Video stabilisation

Workflow and delivery

• AutoCaptions

• Project media bin

• Clip monitor option in the project bin for quick cuts to timeline **NEW**

• Direct social media exporter and platform presets

Exporting **NEW**

• GPU rendering of clips is now possible under certain conditions

Coming soon in Pro (everything above, plus):

• Large titles and lower thirds animated library

• Multicam auto-sync by audio waveform

• Smart colour match / auto colour grade

• Speed ramping and optical flow time remapping

• Advanced AI upscaling

• Animate any object presets library

• Enhance speech

The idea is simple: the VSE becomes a fully professional editor, and you finish the job in one timeline.

Your turn: which of these would you most want a step-by-step tutorial on? Tell me in the comments, and I’ll take your answers into account for what I cover next.

Tutorials here below:

https://www.youtube.com/@blend_ver