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[Closed] AVI Codec

 MZ1

How we can get-set AVI codec option at render time?
For example changing codec from cinepak to MJPEG.

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Why would you render straight into a a(compressed) video clip?

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 MZ1
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Just for preview, so no way?

This means that you cannot set the codec used for .avi files.
Not clear enough?

 MZ1

OK, Thank you.

 lo1

I’ve tried already in a variety of ways, there is no stable way to do it. If you do find one, please let us know.

There are a couple of ways that I’ve implemented this process on our pipeline.

  1. Post render script that sends a commandline script to FFMpeg, compiling the frame sequence into a movie

  2. If you are using deadline, then write a python module to submit a draft job on completion (there are examples of how to do this on the thinkbox site) The 3d pipeline and Nuke pipeline can all utilize this.

We don’t use avi anyway, as animators like stepping through animations frame by frame and therefore want to bypass WMP. I also use option 1 to transcode the max default previews into quicktime as it allows us to embed shot information and extra metadata into it, and give the user the option to open it in either quicktime or pdplayer.