How to render videos - Basic Guide - Image Sequence - Blender - (NO AUDIO)

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Tools

https://store.steampowered.com/app/365670/Blender
OPTIONAL - Any video editing software, such as Kdenlive[kdenlive.org]

1 - Turn on the 1080p+ resolution in the launch settings

-sfm_resolution 1080 -w 1920 -h 1080
OR
-sfm_resolution 2160 -w 3840 -h 2160

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2 - Export>Movie>Image sequence



3 - Blender



4 - Blender Settings

Your resolution can be different
Your framerate can be different yes, I know that SFM is bad with 60fps
Frame range - End (NUMBER OF HOW MANY FRAMES YOU HAVE RENDERED IN SFM)
Output - Anywhere you like
File format - FFMPEG
Encoding - MPEG-4
Video Codec - H.264
Quality - Whatever you like. BUT Lossless has colossal filesize compared to Perceptually Lossless


5 - Select your images. Press "A" on keyboard to select them all (NOT CTRL+A)

END FRAME MUST BE EXACT NUMBER OF IMAGES. SFM STARTS NAMING FILES WITH 0.
YES YOU HAVE TO TYPE END FRAME NUBMER TWICE



6 - Render

Cool button

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