[Solved] Exporting to mp4

[Stuf]

Hey guys,

I've had loads of experience with SFM in the past year, but have recently had to reset my PC. This has gotten rid of sfm and quicktime player consequently. I have redownloaded quicktime player to export to .mp4, but it keeps telling me that I need quicktime.

Any help is appreciated
Thanks :)

[Zappy]

AVI is broken, MP4 and MOV are either too dark and saturated or too bright and de-saturated, depending on compression codec used. Use image sequences instead.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=375229570

[Stuf]

I guess that's an alernative. But I don't have editing software nor do I want to use .avi. I'm kinda stuck here

[Capt Fuzzy]

You have to reboot your pc after installing Quicktime for it to show up in the options in SFM.
I'd highly recommend, due to Apple's announcement that they will no longer support Quicktime for Windows, that you export in image sequence then put it all back together in a video editing program and then export as mp4...

[surfer171]

It's recommended by the forum guys that you export them as image sequence and then you stick them together with either a video editing software or blender.

[Stuf]

I did restart my pc, and again, I have no editing software atm

[Capt Fuzzy]

You can use Blender to do that, there is a tutorial here on how to do it.
Or search free video editing software, there's some good, free ones out there...

[Stuf]

Ok, thanks for your help. Gonna take a while to download though haha. My internet is so bad haha

[Stuf]

Yeah, tbh I really need the .mp4 feature to work... It says it will take me 7 hours to download a 300mb file. Also, as zappy stated, avi is broken. So I really need to get quicktime working with sfm :/

[Capt Fuzzy]

You really don't want to use Quicktime...
Apple is no longer updating it for Windows and as such, it will be open to exploits by hackers, if it isn't already. Plus, the export from SFM never really turns out as well as with image sequence.
It sometimes comes out too bright, other times, too dark. It really doesn't work as well as you'd think, even when Apple was still supporting it...

I exported this as mp4 using Quicktime and it didn't look this bright in SFM...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=622276426

[Stuf]

Zappy and Capt Fuzzy, thanks for your help, but I can't download blender as it would take so long to download. Like I said, I have extremely slow internet...

[Stuf]

Also Capt fuzzy, my videos always turned out fine when I rendered it as mp4

[Capt Fuzzy]

Steam always says something like 7hrs when you first start downloading something, I've got highspeed cable internet and mine even does that, the time will drop and I doubt it will take anywhere near 7hrs to download...
When I first downloaded Rise of the Tomb Raider, it said 26hrs, actually took a little over 2hrs.
And Rise of the Tomb Raider is waaay bigger than Blender in file size...

[Clown]

Originally posted by Stuffedbutter:

Ok, thanks for your help. Gonna take a while to download though haha. My internet is so bad haha

just use windows movie maker its free

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by MK-JackWabbit:

just use windows movie maker its free

Yeah, and the best part is you don't have to download it.
It comes with Windows!

[Stuf]

I know... my internet downloads at 250/kbs, so it isn't steam... and windows movie maker has terrible quality