Images to Video - Blender addon

Quickly process your rendered images to a video file or a gif

A "Create video" sub-panel is added in Properties > Scene > Output

To create video, the addons include two methods:

Generate Sequencer - Instantly set up an edit scene

This will create another scene with rendered images imported in VSE (video sequencer editor)
In addon preferences, you can set up your preferred video preset.

preference preset for vse scene

This method as the benefit to use capabilities of VSE to tweak your render before and customize render settings

VSE from Folder Pop an import dialog. Choose arbitrary folder containing sequence to build sequencer with appropriate scene parameter (just set frame rate manually in importer settings).

Direct Encode - Create video using ffmpeg

This demo of the addon (old version) showcase this method

For this, you need to have ffmpeg on your computer
In the preferences, you can point to ffmpeg executable (no need if it's in your system Path)

When your image sequence render is finished, just choose the quality and hit "make video". This will generate a video file in the upper directory of the sequence.

Options:

Encode at render end: Trigger automatically when a render is finished.
Play video after encode: Launch in default player after encoding is done.
Choose between 3 presets for encoding:

• Fast : fast encoding and light weight against quality (add "_L" suffix)
• normal : good quality, average weight and encoding time
• Final : slower - higher quality with optimized weight (add "_F" suffix)

> note: If you have sound in scene, using direct ffmpeg encode might not sync the sound correctly> it's recommended to use the sequencer option

Third Bonus method : Direct Encode - Create an optimized gif using ffmpeg

Make Gif pop up a window to chose parameters and create a very optimized gif from your image sequence.

Gif from Path Pop an import dialog. Choose a folder / sequence start file / video to convert to gif.

Width setting allow to set a new size for generated gif. Zero value disable rescale.

multi exports setting override the 'dithering' and 'movement over static background' to create a batch of 16 gifs with every combination of parameters, that way user can just choose best looking one.

Why ?

To export a video file, it's better to render an image sequence, then generate a video. The reason is simple, if the direct render of a video crash, you lose everything. Where you can restart at last image with sequence rendering

This addon highly smooth the process of creating the video file from your freshly exported images.

Unleash the video encoding !

Samuel Bernou

Tags : #blender #workflow #blender-addon #b3d #b2d