Saving as video file?

Question

I'm struggling to save this opengl render as a video file. The best I've found is saving the render as a series of .png files and then maybe combining those in After Effects to a video file but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to export some kind of video file directly in Blender.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1 · 2018-05-26T23:37:52Z

replied May 26, 2018 11:37pm

I figured it out! In the properties panel under the scene tab (camera icon) you can select the file output type as avi raw files.

Answer 2 · 2018-07-24T09:23:47Z

replied July 24, 2018 9:23am

thanks mate!!

Answer 3 · 2018-07-25T00:52:33Z

Wayne Dixon replied July 25, 2018 12:52am

avi raw will give you a rather large file and some video players won't be able to play it.

For short animations like this, try FFMpeg, mp4 containter and H.264 codec.

(mp4 with h264 are the most common these days - avi was the most common a loooong time ago)

Later on in the course, I explain my settings and the reason it is actually better to use an image sequence rather than rendering out the animation straight to video format. But you need to get some experience first, and then the reasons become much clearer ;)

Answer 4 · 2018-07-25T08:15:18Z

replied July 25, 2018 8:15am

Ahh, thanks Wayne. Yeah I was hitting my upload limit with vimeo after like two short videos so switching to FFMpeg will help.