All right.
Now that we've rendered all our images or frames into single images how do we combine those into an
actual animation or movie.
Well it's actually pretty simple using the video sequence editor.
So let's go ahead and do that.
And at the same time we'll take a look at what the video sequence editor is and what it's capable of.
Now the only thing that you need to make sure of is that your settings are the same as they were before.
I'm also going to make sure that I'm in cycles rendered just in case anything is different in the cycle's
render than the blender one.
Now you want to make sure that your resolution is the same size you're starting it and frames the same.
So our end frame was 225 and the frames per second are the same as well.
Now you can use the same file as the previous one you had before but I'm showing you if you had forgotten
or if you didn't have open anymore or you didn't save it then you could still create an animation with
the images that you've saved from a new blender file.
Now with these settings change to how they were before.
Let's go to the video sequence other bottom left over here.
Change it from 3D view to video sequence Ed..
Now here this is basically a place where you can add sound images movies and all sorts of different
things to combine them into a certain sequence to overlay music with animation with images.
And it's just a really really cool feature that blender has in order for you to be able to like I say
combining different strips of different things such as strips of images as we're going to do right now.
You can this is where you would add sound for your animation.
This is where you could add certain movie clips if you want to put some movie clips in your animation
and all kinds of different things.
So for now we're just going to use it for the purpose that we need it for.
And you could see that right here it's kind of like a timeline as well.
But if we go to add and then go to image we could go to our folder where we saved our 250 or 225 images
you can see that they're all here and single image format.
This is our animation.
If we had a way to select all the images and then add image strip you can see that now it's added this
image Strip into our scene.
Pretty cool.
So now a way that you could actually see this is if you click on use backdrop right here you can actually
see what image is being presented at that particular frame.
So as we scroll through this we can see all our images that were rendered a movie over here.
It's not yet a movie because we're still scrolling through it like we did before on our When we were
in our 3-D viewport.
But now we can actually turn it into a movie by just having blender put all these images together into
a video format.
So let's go ahead and uncheck use backdrop which is a really cool feature and we'll get more into the
video sequence editor possibly later.
But like I said you can add muu you could add movies you could add sounds and other kinds of strips
you can have as many strips here as you want or as you need.
Right now we only need this.
So let's go ahead and finalize our movie project now going over here we are now going to change this
from PMG because we don't want it to render as a as a image now because we already have the images but
we want to render it as a video.
So I believe the best one is like this video right here and actually not X video let's go with H.
It was a vi RA I believe.
Here we go H.
Point 2 6 4 and then go down to coding.
And we're going to leave the Kodak at eight point two six four and you could actually change it if you'd
like.
I you I usually like MPEG 4 and this will include the sound as well so let's go ahead and choose MPEG
4.
And the format right here we can leave it at a vi or play a quick time.
Let's use Let's leave it as a vi for now.
And so now we are ready to render this as a video format.
But you could see where the power comes in this because we're rendering still images as a video format
which is awesome because as you can see now this gives you much more control.
Again if your animation had stopped at 200 210 frames and you were rendering it as a video originally
you would have lost everything.
But here you have these images and you could actually very easily convert them into a video.
So let's go ahead and do that select the folder where you want the output to be.
I'm going to put it in my stills folder just with the images there.
And now with that all you have to do is go ahead.
Let's click on used backdrops so that I believe it will show us what is happening.
Actually it's not any more so let's just go ahead and click animation and it will render all of these
still images and it will go much faster.
So let's go ahead and click that as you can see it's moving through the frames at a very very rapid
rate because it's not having to really render anything it's actually just composite in the final still
images into a movie.
And now if we take a look at where we rendered our movie which is mine is right here we open it up and
you could see that we have a little animation going on.
How awesome is that.
So congrats on creating your first animation with Blender.
And let's play that beautiful thing one more time.
So you can see it's very simple but it's still pretty cool.
And you know this is just the start of your adventures with Blender So we've learned all the basics
that we needed or a lot of the basics not all on a lot of the basics for Blender.
We use all the knowledge we had and created this little tiny short animation.
Now you have a lot of the skills that you would need to create anything that you want.
Of course with much larger productions and more complex scenes and animations it takes more skill.
So we're going to get into some more advanced things very shortly but once again these are the basics
and the fun fundamentals of animation modeling lighting and texturing and etc. so very well done on
coming this far.
And you know what let's keep going.
You've come so far from knowing absolutely nothing to now creating an animation.
So take pride in yourself and a little quote to end this off.
And I don't remember exactly how the quote goes so I'll just say you know be happy with all the little
things you might take a look at this and say oh yeah it's so simple but I see all these people making
all these crazy awesome things and I just made this thing no.
Take pride in every single little thing that you do every little accomplishment and give yourself that
pride that pat on the back and acknowledge every tiny little step and advancement that you make towards
your dreams towards your goals towards your blender art work towards your health towards everything.
Acknowledge those little accomplishments and they will add up to monumental change.
So with that I'll see you in the next tutorial.
And great work so far.
All right ladies and gentlemen look at this picture.
I actually just went to Zion this past weekend.
Beautiful place.
So the quote for today is as follows.
What gives while the other takes the latter thinks that that is how you get.
But the first knows that it is in the giving that the getting takes place.
All right that's love poem for you there.
Hope you enjoy that one and give an abundance and you'll get back tenfold.
All right see you in the next video.