📽️Video Encoding

Use ffmpeg to encode renders to video

Render To Disk includes the option to automatically convert rendered image sequences to video formats. This requires installing ffmpeg.

Please refer to the links below for more information.

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FFmpeg

How to Install

How to Install FFmpeg on Linux, macOS, and WindowsHostinger Tutorials

FFMPEG Path

Render To Disk expects the ffmpeg command to be invoked without any additional path qualification. As long as it has been installed and added to the system PATH variable (for Windows), it should work fine.

You may also enter a custom path to the ffmpeg executable in the Timeflow Preferences window. Use this option if you wish to use a specific installation or for some reason are having trouble accessing ffmpeg globally.

Video Encoding Settings

Settings are configured using Video Encoding scriptable objects. Timeflow includes a set of presets you may use, found in:

Assets/AxonGenesis/Timeflow/Settings/VideoEncoding

You may also create your own presets by duplicating and modifying any of the above settings, or in the Project view right click to select:

Create > Timeflow > New Video Encoding

Customizing Settings

Select the settings object in the Project view to edit its details in the Inspector.

Codec

Sets the encoder to use. Check the ffmpeg documentation with your install to see available options.

Preset

Use a predefined preset name. Check your ffmpeg install for available presets. If invalid, encoding will not be processed.

CRF

Compression setting determining the quality, where the higher the value the more compressed it is (resulting in lower quality). The default value is 23. Enter 0 for lossless, or enter a value of -1 to skip this setting.

Tune

Additional preset for different media types. Possible values include: film, animation, grain, stillimage, fastdecode, zerolatency.

Audio Codec

Sets the audio codec to be used.

Pixel Format

Sets the pixel format for the encoding. Check the ffmpeg documentation for options. Note that warnings may occur but may be ignored.

Extra Flags

Enter any additional ffmpeg command line settings. Leave this empty to ignore.

Extension

Enter the file extension for the output video. Please be sure to begin with a dot (example: .mp4)