{"id":303,"date":"2016-07-20T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/reaper-video-basics-adding-photos-music-and-cross-fading\/"},"modified":"2020-11-14T17:17:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:17:02","slug":"reaper-video-basics-adding-photos-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/reaper-video-basics-adding-photos-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaper Video Tutorial: Adding Photos, Music, and Cross-fading"},"content":{"rendered":"
Many of you were probably unaware that Reaper had a basic video editing processor. While not exactly Hollywood standard, it is functional enough to splice together a decent video. Considering how Reaper is a DAW first and foremost this opens up a lot of options for scoring films and videos. I am going to give a quick demo on how to start off using Reaper video. This first tutorial will be really basic, just adding photos and music. I will show you how to fade between them and even use LFOs which can be used to create zooms and movement.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n If you haven’t already, when first using Reaper Video, you will need to download some free video codecs<\/a>. This is simply because of licensing restrictions which prevent them being packaged with Reaper commercially.<\/p>\n The link above directs you to a forum which contains all the links and details for getting that set up. Now then onto the actual video editing!<\/p>\n When you open Reaper, your first instinct is to add a track. The process is the same for video, in fact, as Reaper doesn’t have tracks dedicated to audio or video, you do it exactly the same. Press ctrl+t (cmd+t on mac) to add a new track.<\/p>\n