Re:Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support
by spudlyo on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:27PM
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I just started work on a screencast video for this year's EmacsConf. Previously I had used ScreenFlow on macOS for this sort of thing, but having since fled macOS I was casting about for something in the Linux world to replace my workflow.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Blender has a fairly competent video editor built into it. I was also stoked to learn that Blender has a built in Python interpreter, and it was pretty easy to build a Python startup module that registers a timer callback that polls a directory looking for evidence of new OBS screen recordings, and upon finding one automatically appends it to the open project. An integration with i3 and the OBS WebSocket API made it possible to start, stop, and finalize screen recordings to ensure that all the filesystem writes were atomic.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Blender has a fairly competent video editor built into it. I was also stoked to learn that Blender has a built in Python interpreter, and it was pretty easy to build a Python startup module that registers a timer callback that polls a directory looking for evidence of new OBS screen recordings, and upon finding one automatically appends it to the open project. An integration with i3 and the OBS WebSocket API made it possible to start, stop, and finalize screen recordings to ensure that all the filesystem writes were atomic.
Pretty cool, no need for ScreenFlow!