

If you want to reduce your Cycles render time in half, you may be able to use this trick: pix_fmt yuv420p specifies the pixel format, change this as needed. crf is the quality, lower means better quality, 17-25 is usually good. should not be needed as ffmpeg autodetects. – f image2 sets the input format to image sequence. If no padding is needed use something similar to pic%d.png or %d.png. %04d means that zeros will be padded until the length of the string is 4 i.e 0001…0020…0030…2000 and so on. palettegen/use specifies a color palette details. Note: split is used to generate intermediate images needed for animated GIF generation so you can perform the process in a single instruction. vf specifies encoding arguments (framerate, scale, compression algorithm). Simply double click either file to start the encoding process or run from a command promt with + or + followed by The above script converts an MP4 file (0001.MP4) into an animated GIF file reduced to 1024px width. Create a file in C:\tmp\ named _encode_animated_gif.cmd with the following contents on a single line: _ffmpeg -i 0001.mp4 -vf "fps=24,scale=1024:-1:flags=bitexact,split palettegen paletteuse" -loop 1 0001.gif Use a single percentage symbol when executing manually from the command prompt as an instruction rather than calling the script.Īs a fail-safe you can use the following alternative: _ffmpeg -r 24 -f image2 -i %%04d.png -vcodec libx264 0001.mp4ģ. Note the need for double percentage symbols when run from a script. Note the width of the input images needs to be a value divisible by 2 when using -pix. The above script converts a sequence of PNG images (0001.PNG, 0002.PNG, etc.) to a H.264 encoded MP4 file. Create a file in C:\tmp\ named _encode_h264.cmd with the following contents on a single line : _ffmpeg -r 24 -f image2 -s 1920x1080 -i %%04d.png -vcodec libx264 -crf 17 -pix_fmt yuv420p 0001.mp4 Download FFMPEG and place ffmpeg.exe in C:\tmp\ renamed as _ffmpeg.exeĢ. Use H.264 with MP4 container (not MKV) when in doubt. H.264 is notroyalty free for hardware manufacturers / software developers and patented by MPEG LA consortium. (Apple mobile devices do not playback VP9 videos) Use Blender VSE for multi track video editing. Using FFmpeg is preferred over Blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE) as it runs mean and lean from a command prompt, does not need to render images prior to encoding, encodes multi-processor and offers many encoding options.
