Time for action – preparing a scene in Video Sequence Editor

Now, you're going to lay in an audio track and two video tracks, and then do a dissolve between the video tracks:

1. Open a new file in Blender.
2. In the Dimensions subpanel of the Properties window, set Resolution to X: 512, Y: 512, and 100%.
3. In the Blender window header, just to the left of where it says Default, click on the button with the three boxes and choose Video Editing from the drop-down menu, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
4. In the Video Editing layout, there are four windows: the Graph Editor window on the upper left; Video Sequence Editor on the upper right, set to display the video preview; Video Sequence Editor in the middle row, set to display the video layers; and the Timeline window at the bottom, as shown in the following screenshot:
   
5. In the header of the Video Sequence Editor – sequencer window, click on the Add button and choose Movie from the pop-up menu.
6. Find the Chapter 12/Images/Video Strips...