Blender Video Editor Output

Enable sequencer in the post processing tab this will switch render mode from 3d rendering to video sequence rendering.

Blender video editor output. The video will be saved on c videos by default reset the sequencer. In this blender video editing tutorial we will be looking at exporting videos in blender 2 8. Either on the internet youtube vimeo etc or with family and friends dvd blu ray or even possibly for television broadcast. Since the release of blender 2 79 i ve had a few emails asking pretty much the same thing what happened to h 264 so i thought i would make a quick video showing you how you can save render out.

You can render your animation by clicking on render render animation in the menu in the top left corner of your screen next to the blender logo. Learn how to render video in blender easily and efficently. In the properties editor select the output tab scroll down to the output section and fill in the boxes there. And in the output tab choose h 264 it will be mpg4 by default as i recall.

Open the encoding area and choose mpeg 4 in the container menu. When the rendering start the sequence editor will be replaced by a video player. Specify the render preset such as the hdtv 720p or some other. The video editor includes.

Or press ctrl f12. Specify frames per second. Also specify an output path and filename. Then use shift a to add your media to the sequencer view.

Audio mixing syncing scrubbing and waveform visualization. A codec is a little routine that compresses the video so that it will fit on a blu ray or be able to be streamed out over the internet over a cable or just be a reasonable file size. Video formats these formats are primarily used for compressing rendered sequences into a playable movie they can also be used to make plain audio files. On the left in output check the path where the video will be saved.

Choose ffmpeg video as the file format in the file format selection menu. For rendering 3d you would want to first export as png files and then post render bring the png sequence into the video sequence editor render it into a final video file but it sounds like you are trying to do a final video render in which case you go to the output section and choose ffmpeg video then under encoding container you generally. Set your end frame. Blender comes with a built in video sequence editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing as well as more complex tasks like video masking or color grading.