Blender Tips and Tricks
Introduction
Blender is very versatile but also very complex. Somethings
are easily accomplished but difficult to find out. These
pages aim to document some of things I came across that I did
not want to forget again. Hopefully it is of some use to others as well.
Converting a sequence of stills to an AVI
Converting a series of a separately rendered frames to an avi movie
can be accomplished in several ways. The most versatile but also the
least simple one is using
the sequence
editor. The method documented here uses compositor nodes.
- Start Blender
- Open the Node Editor window in compositor mode
- Enable Nodes
- Remove all default nodes
- Add an image sequence node (Add->Input->Image)
- Add a compositor output node (Add->Output->Composite)
- Make sure they are connected
- Enable compositing in the render buttons
- Select Avi-jpeg as renderformat
- Render animation by clicking [Anim]
The image sequence node is the key here: In the node editor Add->Input->Image, then click on 'Load New'.
In the file selector that pops up, select the first file of the series
of separate frames and click on 'Select Image'. Next, select from the image type dropdown to the right of the image name,
the sequence icon (default is image). Finally, select the number of frames.
A
sample .blend is available and
the following screenshot illustrates the relevant
settings
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