Reply To: Render to MP4 is very blurry?

[noodlespice]

Yes I just purchased SLATE hoping to make MP4 movies and have found the output to be a bit buggy, even with Audio disabled and a small screen size.

I was hoping to avoid the offline rendering/composition workflow.

How do we “fix” this Gavalakis? Are you able to outline what the bottleneck is? It plays well and smoothly in the Unity Editor and I was hoping we could simply capture that output.

I’ll see if Keijiro’s renderer works. I have had success with that in the past but I’m not sure if it can capture audio.

Will report back 🙂

Cheers

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I’ve spent a couple of hours looking at various solutions:
Keijiro’s script does not compile
Unity’s video recorder is all kinds of a mess. It requires UJT Framerecorder and then claims there are 2 dll’s called core
UJT FrameRecorder has it’s own Play button which does not trigger SLATE’s editor Play button.
I tried to hack into the code for a free demo from the Asset store so it would be triggered by the SLATE play button – that kind of worked but then lost contact with the Render Camera
A similar problem with another free trial from the Asset store – lost contact with Render Camera.

So while their appear to be many (varied) MP4 recording solutions the issues I found were:
triggering from SLATE play function in ClipEditor script (not a big issue with some work I think)
the recorder not seeing SLATE’s Render Camera
other stuff I don’t know about yet (such as the load on the CPU/GPU outputting frames while switching and layering in SLATE which might derail any attempt at real time rendering)

I’d be happy with a semi-offline solution that included audio. As it stands I’d have to render PNGs and then get my timed audio mixed somehow and then composite the 2. Unless I’m missing something important. One of SLATE’s benefits is the ability to tweak animation and audio tracks in the Editor like Premiere or Final Cut.

As I said I was hoping that SLATE provided a “realtime” rendering solution. This does not take away from the fact that SLATE is an enormous gain for people wanting to make cutscenes and realtime movies (like me).

Gavalakis would you mind taking a moment to describe the technical impediments to attaching a MP4 renderer to SLATE’s Render Camera? Thanks

Cheers!