Exporting Video to Mp4 or other formats

[garbaggy]

I only have the option to export my movie to an AVI file, but In SFM it says that you can install Quicktime for more Exporting file options. I installed Quicktime and restarted my PC and still nothing other than AVI file will show up... If anyone knows how to fix this issue please help me thx...

[Marco Skoll]

First thing to do is uninstall Quicktime. It's a defunct program that's out of support, with very serious security exploits.

The only video export you should use is Image sequences - larger AVI files automatically corrupt, and Quicktime is dangerous (and exports with poor contrast).

Image sequences export frames as individual image files, which can be assembled into the final video in almost any video editor (the most notable exception is Windows/Live Movie Maker). The tutorial below uses Blender's integral video editor for its example.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375229570

This might sound like a tedious additional step in the process, but it's very quick and easy when you get used to it (much faster than the initial SFM render), and it's very reliable - it's a lot less tedious than the frequent discovery at the end of hours of rendering that your AVI/MP4/MOV export doesn't work properly.

[garbaggy]

thank you very much

[JustSomeDog]

Finally, I'm having this same problem too. Thanks for the video!