Yes ! REAPER can do video editing too !!

You can make vlogs, podcasts, tutorials, lyric videos and more…

…But out of the box it’s a bit tough, like assembling Swedish furniture without a wrench or instructions.

REAPERBLOG Video Tools is the essential pack of tools for making videos in REAPER, plus the knowledge to use them creatively and effectively.
This video course is hosted by Jon Tidey of The REAPER Blog who has now made hundreds of videos in many styles using REAPER 5 exclusively for editing.

These presets significantly improve editing workflow and provide many functions not included with REAPER’s presets, such as basic video cropping, colored text with drop shadow, guide lines, borders and more.

 

 


REAPER Video Processor Presets

Video Controls
Color Controls
Text Overlay with drop shadow
Simple Text Overlay
Black & White Filter
Draw Box Annotation
Lighten/Screen Overlay
Frame Center Guide
Border Guide
Rule of 3rds Guide
16:9 Safe Area Guide
Solid Color
Solid Color (adjustable Size)
Horizontal line
Vertical line
Solid Color (adjustable size with border)
ADR / Foley Cue Marker 1
ADR / Foley Cue Marker 2
Noise Generator
Noise Generator Color
Mouse Position Guide
Dim background around selection
16:9 Safe Area Guide 2
Time Counter (seconds)
Letterbox Overlay
Glitch Effector
Glitch Lines
Glitch Text Overlay
Glitch Blocks Fixed Color
Glitch Blocks Random Color
Random Text Generator

Gradient Color Fill

Item fades to slide transitions
Item fades to corner slide transitions
Item fades to crop transitions
item fades to zoom transitions
Item fades to Pan

 

Intuitive drag and mousewheel control for positioning graphic overlays

 

Creating a custom animated text box

 

Custom image overlays

Learn how to use the Video Tools presets plus:

  • How to edit faster
  • How to layer hand-drawn text and other image layers over video
  • How to automate parameters of the video processor for custom lower-thirds, picture in picture, and more.
  • How to link parameters to mouse drag and mousewheel for FAST positioning of image elements
  • How to create shortcuts to reuse your favorite visual effects
  • And see inside Jon’s efficient tutorial editing template

The 1.1 update adds 7 new presets, improvements to nearly all previous presets and 3 new tutorial videos.

  • 7 new presets:
    • Noise Generator
    • Noise Generator Color
    • Mouse Position Guide
    • Dim background around selection
    • 16:9 Safe Area Guide 2
    • Time Counter (seconds)
    • Letterbox Overlay
  • 3 new tutorial videos
    • 1.1 new presets
    • Noise Generators
    • Custom actions and Scripts
  • fixed minor overlap issue in guide presets
  • font selector added to text overlay presets
  • color mode selection added to guides and color fill
  • hints (size display in pixels) added to box annotation and solid color adjustable size presets
  • color selection in presets now use 0-255 standard RGB instead of 0-1 float.
  • various optimizations

The 1.5 update adds 12 new presets and 2 new tutorial videos

  • List of new presets in 1.5 update
    • Glitch Effector – Random video color corruption that updates every frame
    • Glitch Lines – overlay randomized color stripe
    • Glitch Text Overlay – generate text with random color glitch effects
    • Glitch Blocks Fixed Color – random rectangles of a single color
    • Glitch Blocks Random Color – random rectangles of random color
    • Random Text Generator – generate a random string of text characters
    • Item fades to slide transitions – transition a video into/out of view based on length and shape of item fade starting from edge.
    • Item fades to corner slide transitions – transition a video into/out of view based on length and shape of item fade starting from corner.
    • Item fades to crop transitions – reveal a video into/out of view based on length and shape of item fade.
    • item fades to zoom transitions – grow/shrink transition based on length and shape of item fade. Centered or from corners
    • Item fades to Pan – simple “Ken Burns effect” horizontal or vertical movement on zoomed image based on length of fade.
  • New tutorial videos
    • Texture effects
    • 1.5 update presets overview

Bonus content added since launch

  • 70 Light Transition video clips to enhance your edits (added Oct 2019)
  • new tutorial video on using light transitions (added Oct 2019)
  • new tutorial on moving camera / manual motion tracking effects (added Feb 2020)
  • new tutorial on title text reveal effects (added April 2020)
  • new tutorial on Video playback optimization and best practices (added Aug 2020)
  • new tutorial on Ripple Editing tips (added Aug 2020)
  • new tutorial on Texture Effects (added July 2021)
  • new tutorial on using v1.5 tutorials (added July 2021)

single payment of $30

Estimated Time: 2hr +

Difficulty: Intermediate

VIDEO PROCESSOR PRESETS


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26 responses to “REAPERBLOG Video Tools: REAPER Video Processor Presets and Training”

  1. ronald sifontes Avatar
    ronald sifontes

    Hi. I from Venezuela . is there other option to paypal?

  2. James Mason Avatar
    James Mason

    I highly recommend this course. The video processor presets are incredibly useful and worth the price alone. The training course is informative and thorough. If you’re making videos with Reaper and looking at this web page just pull the trigger, this is GREAT!

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi James
      Thanks so much for the review!

  3. Jonathan Duran Avatar
    Jonathan Duran

    Hello there – excellent course and VERY helpful custom presets, thank you, thank you. One questions – am I missing the section about rendering? I’m looking for more information because I cannot seem to render in MP4 format, even with ffmpeg and vlc properly installed.

    Thanks for all your work on this course, it’s excellent.

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi Jonathan
      I guess you are on Windows. Having the right version of FFMPEG 64bit shared in the userplugins folder should allow you to render and h.264 mp4, though I think a lot of users export lossless then use Handbrake to convert.
      Info here
      https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=82459

      On mac I choose AVFoundation encoder, MPEG-4 video streaming optimized. 8000kbps for 1080p

      1. Jonathan Duran Avatar
        Jonathan Duran

        Thank you for the reply! I’ll check into this.

  4. Will Irace Avatar
    Will Irace

    You may think something as simple as video cropping should be built into REAPER. You may be right. But these presets go well beyond the basics, they’re well worth what he’s charging, and they work! I made this with REAPER thanks to Jon’s hard work. https://youtu.be/IXMtVc6vgF0

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hey Will. I’ve got a new preset coming to the course soon that will make those kinds of videos even easier. No cropping of each video, it just automatically makes a grid with adjustable border thickness and background Image/video in the border area or empty area.

      1. Aaron Grooves Avatar

        Hi Jon, is that automatic grid preset already out and included with the course? Sounds like a good investment. I’ve been using Davinci Resolve (premiere before then), but it would be much more efficient to do some of these simple grid videos within Reaper, where I’m already mixing audio from multiple student videos. Thanks!

        1. Admin Avatar
          Admin

          The one I was alluding to ended up getting put into a reaper update while I was creating my own version. Grid of Videos preset in the video processor. My version was never released.

          1. Aaron Grooves Avatar
            Aaron Grooves

            Thanks for the quick response! I played around a bit, but ended up going back to Resolve; I need to learn a bit more before I can really benefit from video editing in Reaper. Just purchased your course. Thanks a ton!

  5. T. Streng Avatar

    two questions: 1st – how many tracks with video-processor plugins in Rreaper are possible? A special wish would be controlling more then 2 parameters from several video-fx in the same track…

    2nd – exists any choice to control video parameters from audio material (sidechaining, FFT-analysis, marked freq-bands, rhythm beats etc. (btw. I need these for comosing audio and video mat. together solutions like resolume are known but that’s not the target)

    thanks for hints and kind regards
    TSt

  6. GG Avatar
    GG

    Hey Jon,
    Hey everyboby,

    I followed this course one year ago (during the first european lockdown), and it was just great thanks a lot. I used it many times, but for the first time I have to deal with 2 cams. It’s a simple set but I noticed something I have some trouble with. I put my two video files on two different track and switch them. I also apply the brightness and color corrections on each track. And because cams are not at the same place, corrections are different. But the corrections I put on the first track affect the second one ! like if every video signal pass through all the video processor (following the order if importance). I found solutions to solve this but they are not great. Like bypass the video processor of the more important track during the playing the the “other tracks” items. I took too much time. I could find a way to automatize everything but is there a way, or an option, to do it simply ?
    Thanks again for your work.
    GG

    1. GG Avatar
  7. Dag Ove Vareberg Avatar
    Dag Ove Vareberg

    Hi Jon, is it possible to sync several videos and audio files in Reaper with an action or a preset you have made? In Premiere it’s possible to load in takes from the same scene (multi cam) for example an iPhone, iPad, video camera, lav mic etc and run an action, and boom everything is synchronized. No need to manually line up takes etc. is that possible in Reaper and is that something you explain in your course? Thanks!

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi Dag
      No automatic way to do that. I do a clap sync and line up the first frame of clap with the sound.
      If you have the same sound on each source it can be as simple as pressing TAB to go the first transient, setting snap offset to that point (or trimming left of cursor). Then snapping all to the start of project, marker or wherever.

  8. Catherine Cunningham Avatar

    Hi John, I’ve been going down the video editing rabbit hole and running into various problems. I just want to do something really simple – edit video from phone and synchronize to audio from H4N.
    I have Reaper 5.11 and 4g of ram, is reaper video viable for me? Does it make sense to purchase an more recent version of reaper? Thanks! Catherine

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      Hi Catherine. 4GB of RAM is potentially an issue.
      5.11 is from 2016. I would update to 5.99, there are a lot of video features in those updates between.
      https://www.reaper.fm/download-old.php?ver=5x

  9. ron mansolino Avatar
    ron mansolino

    Is there a way to use metadata from the project/track/file render as variables? (eg., a title card for exports, or lyrics (or other midi events) to subtitles, or …)

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      For text generators you can use the item take name, or track name to autofill the text. That’s it though

  10. Jose Edgardo Messina Heredia Avatar
    Jose Edgardo Messina Heredia

    Hola, necesito REAPER Video Processor Presets. Como lo obtengo?
    Tengo licencia del programa Saludos.

  11. Avishai Karawan Avatar
    Avishai Karawan

    Hey John, REALLY enjoyed the course and tools, incredible job!!

    Had a question regarding still images – When I import images into a timeline that has video, the resolution seems to go wild, and everything goes weird and blurry. Seems as if the video track under the images is also affected by the resolution changes.

    Is there a way you suggest that I use for overlaying still images on video?
    Thanks!!

    1. Admin Avatar
      Admin

      I’m usually using the “Image Overlay” preset if there is transparency, or my “Video Controls” preset and shrink it down. I don’t recall any recent issues with this.

      Feel free to email me with some screenshots to show the problem.

  12. Sigurd Nikolai Winge Avatar
    Sigurd Nikolai Winge

    Hello there

    I am working with different aspect ratios in the film . The source film which is a old film has : 768 x 576 aspects.
    I have set this in project settings, I have a AI enerated 4k film ie. it has 5120 x 1536 . How Do I make reaper automatically Letterbox so I can keep this Format and different formats in the film without them getting skewed into the prefered size for the project ? Thank you . Cant fin answer to this anywhere you see 🙂

    1. Sigurd Nikolai Winge Avatar
      Sigurd Nikolai Winge

      Hey I solved it in handbrake . I just chose a normal aspect ratio and higtened the quality of the aI conversion .
      There was just a half day of intens headscratvhing so thats why I reached out haha

  13. David Dahl Avatar
    David Dahl

    I’m on lesson 7 I took another video of me playing my guitar. These lessons are awesome. I’ve been using my own guitar videos. When I loaded up my next video new song into reaper I’m upside down. I don’t see any rotating controls so far. I remember now this happened to me before and I was able to rotate the video but don’t remember where that dial is at

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