The blender-media-viewer is a Blender Application Template that makes Blender usable as a Video-Player, Image and Text-Viewer and Review tool.

It came to life because we wanted to have a player that could seamlessly browse media files with the arrow keys for our weekly presentations at the studio no matter if they are video, images or image sequences. It became apparent that having review tools fit well in the scope of this project, so they got added.

One important aspect of the blender-media-viewer is to be able to use it without your mouse. Make sure to read the shortcuts section.

This Application Template reduces the Blender UI to a bare minimum to remove all elements that are not needed. It ships with its own add-on and keymap which add the functionality to make it usable as a media viewer.

Installation

Note: The blender-media-viewer requires at least Blender 3.1!

The Media Viewer is part of the Blender Studio Tools repository. If you want to get the latest development version consider cloning it with git from there.

Otherwise download the project at the top of this post.

Blender expects Application Templates in these folders:

{BLENDER_USER_SCRIPTS}/startup/bl_app_templates_user

{BLENDER_SYSTEM_SCRIPTS}/startup/bl_app_templates_system

In the root project folder you will find the 'blender_media_viewer' folder. Place the blender_media_viewer folder in one of these directories or create a sym link to it.

More information on Application Templates can be found here.

How to get started

For more information check out this blog post. And checkout the README.md file of this project.