Convert Image Sequence Into Video - Blender

Blender Rookie · 181K views · 2020 · 5:10

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Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it

Blender Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when they need to assemble rendered frames into a video inside Blender without using external software.

Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2022 to 2022.

What it is

A short Blender Rookie tutorial showing how to turn a rendered image sequence (such as PNG frames) into a video file using Blender's built-in video sequencer. It walks through importing the frames and setting the output format, with a narrator and screen capture.

What people said

Recommends John Eason · 2022-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Why my rendered video Is impossible to be opened?”

You can of course import your png file sequence into Blender's video sequencer and save that to Mpeg format. No need to use external software. For instance: [this video]

Recommends Deven · 2022-11 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Exporting to mov file for transparency turn the smoke of a fire pixelated, how to avoid it?”

First things first: Bad tutorial! Why, you ask? because that dude directly exported as video. That is a Nono, my guy. What you want to do first is: Export your animation as individual frames. Why, you ask? Because you can render as png with transparency in high quality. If your render crashes you still have the progress you have made with the finished images, so no need to start over, just start where Blender left off. Then you can use this: [this video] To get the image sequence into a video within Blender and try to use AVI instead of Quicktime, as that also supports transparency. OR: Go ahead and download davinci resolve. It is free and you will definitely be able to export high quality video

Cites Pierre Ducos · 2022-06 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Saving a rendered file with a audio track on it”

Output Properties In order to export an animation with audio, you need to change how your blender file will output its animation data! Let's take a quick look at how to output audio in Blender 3.0. Below is my video file, with my video and audio tracks. Let's navigate to the "Output Properties" tab (Icon outlined in red, which looks like a small printer ) [LINK] Here, we can manage many of our output settings! Let's take a closer look. Below, we see an image of the Output Panel. If we look closely at the Output panel, we'll see almost everything we need to know about our export: [LINK] The Output Path tells your computer where to export your animation. (if you give your computer the path to