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> I'm curious: Why would you use Blender for this? I consider it a 3-D modeling tool, not a video editor.

Because it has a nice video editor in it, that's useful for lots of things.

Might be hard to get into if you never used Blender before. But if you've done 3D modelling in Blender, you'll be pleasantly surprised that your intuition of how to move, scale and generally edit stuff works the same in the video editor as in the rest of Blender.

I use Blender for video editng because I already know how to use it, I already have it installed on my computers, and because it has never been inadeqate. Blender doesn't have a ton of effects in the video editor itself, but you can replicate those effects in the 3D editor and in the node compositor.

It has a video editor that's actually quite good, and designed for fine-tuned output, as opposed to most free software available for video editing, which is either of low-quality or has very little output or compositing control.