New Feature Exporting Sitrec Videos

[Mick West]

While you can screen-capture video, it's not always ideal, as playback can be jerky on slower machines, and the frame-rate will not match (e.g., 25fps will be recorded at 30). So I've added video export for the views (look and main), and the whole screen.

"Export Video" will export the video view selected above. So you can export just the look view:

"Export Viewport Video" will export the full browser window (minus the UI, which I might add back as the version number is useful)

"Retina" exports in higher resolution (like, ~4K)

 

[Mick West]

Expand this somewhat; now uses MP4, which is more common than WebM. You can export either the main or look view, the entire browser viewport, or full-screen (probably the most useful). Optionally with audio. You can also start a render and stop if when you think you have enough frames. Or set the A/B frames to define a range.

Video encoding is a bit browser-dependent, so it might not work in HD on older browsers. Generally that's not really useful anyway. The default full screen should give you 1080p

 

[Zaine M.]

Very nice job on having a video exporter

 

[jarlrmai]

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Expand this somewhat; now uses MP4, which is more common than WebM. You can export either the main or look view, the entire browser viewport, or full-screen (probably the most useful). Optionally with audio. You can also start a render and stop if when you think you have enough frames. Or set the A/B frames to define a range.

Video encoding is a bit browser-dependent, so it might not work in HD on older browsers. Generally that's not really useful anyway. The default full screen should give you 1080p

When I try I get this error

 

[purpleivan]

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When I try I get this error

Is that due to one dimension not being divisible by 4? I have a vague memory of that being a requirement of H.264.

I'm far from an expert regarding video, but I believe I've hit that issue before when making videos.

 

[Mick West]

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When I try I get this error

Which browser?

 

[Mick West]

Is that due to one dimension not being divisible by 4? I have a vague memory of that being a requirement of H.264.

I'm far from an expert regarding video, but I believe I've hit that issue before when making videos.

They just need to be even, and I pad it if not. It's more likely its too big (>1920px wide), and being used on a mobile or non-standard browser.

@jarlrmai Try using Video Format: WebM

 

[jarlrmai]

Which browser?

Firefox

 

[jarlrmai]

Webm gave a different error I'll try and recreate it on a bit

 

[Mick West]

Webm gave a different error I'll try and recreate it on a bit

My test have all worked on Mac, but I just tried running it on Windows under Parallels (on my Mac) I get the errors. ("n is not a constructor"). So I'll address those.

Are you running Windows on a PC?

 

[Mick West]

@jarlrmai, try it now, I've made it a bit more robust.

 

[jarlrmai]

My test have all worked on Mac, but I just tried running it on Windows under Parallels (on my Mac) I get the errors. ("n is not a constructor"). So I'll address those.

Are you running Windows on a PC?

Yeah windows 11

 

[Mick West]

Yeah windows 11

Hmm, I'm still having some issues with Windows 11 exporting mp4. It seems to export, but can't play the file in Media Player. However, WebM works. Try that.

 

[Mick West]

It seems like this is a Firefox issue, as the MP4 exporting works in Chrome on Windows 11.

 

[jarlrmai]

It all seems to work for me now, exported a MP4 on Firefox on Windows 11 no problem

 

[Mick West]

It all seems to work for me now, exported a MP4 on Firefox on Windows 11 no problem

A playable one?

 

[jarlrmai]

Yeah no problem it plays fines