Now where it says 'Use Camera Settings' you can turn those up / down however much you please! Just note that turning those up (while making your video look fabulous) will cause you to take a LOT longer to render the video out! Personally I recommend rendering in 720 or 1080p for preview, and then messing with render settings when your ready for the final version. You can access the render settings (for all cameras) by Right clicking in your viewport and then clicking 'Render Settings':įirst of all, make sure that 'Progressive Refinement' is checked, then make sure that all the other boxes are checked: Now the second thing you can do is force-adjust the Render Settings of all cameras in the scene. Note: Rendering in 1080p can be weird and because the window is so big it may make so you cannot see the render estimate / bottom of the render preview Next you want to click 'Set Launch Options'Ĭongrats, you can now render your video in 1080p! You can actually tell SFM to allow you to render in full 1080p! This can be done by going to your Software section of your Steam Library (This is how you launch SFM in the first place) and right clicking Source Filmmaker. Now, in case your wondering why your video doesn't look as HD as the next fellows, it's because there are some advanced options you can do to make your video look better.įirst of all, you have been rendering your video in 720p. Optional!īut once that is all said and done you are ready to press that export button and on your way to previewing / uploading your new fancy SFM Animation! This will make so the video renders with correct lighting. Now where it says 'MPEG4' you want to change to 'H.264'. This will make the video render as an MPEG. You want to set the 'format' section to MP4. This will cause your video to look dark, play weird, and just all sorts of bugs and glitches that we want to avoid.

You do NOT want to export this video as an. Now here is the part that everyone messes up on: (Wherever you want the final file to end up). You then at the top want to change the Output path to wherever you want your video to be rendered / exported to.

But for the purpose of this guide we want to act like we're trying to get the best out of our video! Now here comes the most 'complicated' section of rendering.įirst of all, you should see this window pop up:įirst of all you want to turn up your video quality, this of course is not necessary and it will actually be a faster render if you lower the quality. This is found at the top left under File > Export > Movie Now we move on to the actual rendering of the video!įirst of all, the easiest part is finding the export button (Of course!):

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