OK!

With

a

clean

slate

go

ahead

and

select

Render

Animation

to

start

Rendering. When Blender is finished Rendering press Esc to exit Blender Render.

Go look in your /tmp\ folder and you will find a single video file (Figure 14.10). Since this is a

video file you can play it in an external application such as VLC Media Player. If you try this with

the Bouncing Ball AVI File it plays pretty quickly. An external player only plays the file once and at

24 frames per second this is quick.

Windows 10 File Explorer

AVI File (.avi)

Figure 14.10

14.5 Video Codecs

In the preceding example, changing the default PNG file format to AVI Raw, elected to use the

AVI Raw Video Codec. This tells the computer how you want your animation data encoded.

There are many many video codecs to chose from and simply selecting a codec type in Blender

doesn't necessarily mean that you will get the result that you want. You must have the Codec

installed on your computer.

A Codec is a little routine that compresses the video so that it will fit on a DVD, or be able to be

streamed over the internet, or over cable, or just be a reasonable file size.

Simply put, when using a codec, you encode the Blender animation data to a video file which

suits a particular output media such as PAL TV or NTSC TV. When you have used the encoded

data to create a video CD or DVD, the CD or DVD is played in a device (CD / DVD Player) which

decodes the data for display i.e. Television Screen.

Codecs included in Blender

One External Codec Source

Figure 14.11

https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

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