Video recorder in the Editor

The video from Unite Amsterdam 2017 Keynote showed a feature to record video from the editor (Window -> Recorder).
Is this feature available somewhere?

 

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/GenericFrameRecorder

 

Thanks for this question and answer, I also noticed they mentioned it. After dowloading the feature from the Github source, how do I make it work? Just copy the files in my asset folder? Or do I need to do something else?

 

Just copy and done.

 

Hi. I've just downloaded the GenericFrameRecorder and I have "The type or namespace name `fcAPI' could not be found" error. I've tried to google the issue but there is no info out there. Have anyone had a success installing the extention?

 

Hey Xaon,

I believe you also need this:
https://github.com/unity3d-jp/FrameCapturer

 

Thanks! It works!
First test of the extention was, um, well... bad. But I've managed to record something.
I don't know why, but when I start recording it switches the game view to portrait mode and the final output is streched horizontally. Also the video isn't rendered in in the video file resolution but the image is streched so recording in 4K is useless.
So I understand why it's not integrated into Unity Editor yet.

Edit:
I've managed to have a nice 1080p output using Maximize On Play switch in game view and higher Video Target Bitrate. In the end it's a nice feature to have

 

Is there any way to export .mp4 with audio or do we need video editing software for that?

 

Than you very much! That was exactly what I was looking for!

 

Can this be used to record a short film driven by a Timeline? Will this eventually make recording something like the Adam demo a fairly seamless and easy process?

 

This extension can't record video, it can just capture images. It is a waste of life.

 

Video was supported, then it was removed because other team is working on it. It's going to be back in a few days/weeks.

Also if you download first version you can still record video.

 

Any idea if it will easily sync with recording from Octane?

 

If i think correctly, Octane has it's own Recorder for Unity.



(Picture taken from @_kzr Twitter)

 

If I wanted to record myself doing something in VR is this the package I would use? I wanted to setup an over the shoulder camera with CineMachine to record myself making something in VR and then play it back on a render texture as a guide.

 

Okay, thanks to Jacob I was able to get and install the FrameRecorder package.

Here is a screen shot of my settings.



A couple of observations/questions

1) When in the VR session and recording, it made my view have quite pronounced jaggies and i could detect noticeable lag.
2) The resulting file has the video upside down
3) The video has a lot of artifacts, particularly at the beginning when i was moving my headset around - perhaps due to the headset and the capture resolution not being the same?
4) Why only GameDisplay and MainCamera?
5) @jasonm_unity3d If you have any suggestions for recording in a VR session I would like to hear them.

Edit: I followed some advice farther up the thread and opened an issue on github with my questions

 

Recorder from Unity was made for offline rendering, Better use this for real-time recording: https://github.com/keijiro/FFmpegOut
It was created by one of the Unity devs.

 

@JacobSmaga Thanks for the pointer will give it a go.

 

Doesn't want to play nice with VR. Could be the way I set it up. I tried adding the capture script to the HMD, when that didn't work, I removed it and then setup a secondary camera but VR seems to take that over as well.

When the recording starts the scene just freezes.

 

Try contacting twitter.com/_kzr He made the FFmpegOut.

 

From the README.md on github "On the other hand, FFmpegOut is not optimized for real-time capturing. It's not strongly recommended to use it in an interactive application."

 

Hey there,
The recorder works great. I've been exporting my Unity Timeline and Cinemachine cameras - one exception though..

I'm using the Unity video player triggered by the Timeline and they aren't synced up right when exporting an image sequence with the new recorder. Is there a way to fix this and have the video player export frame by frame as well, in sync with what is on the timeline?

Apparently, it has to do with the timescale etc..

Thanks again.

 

i will use external tool for this job... things must be easy .. we have a lot of work and during this we are losing time of how we can record with this "feature"... that's all folks

 

Hi,

I'm unable to download the Recorder from the Asset store and when I download it from Github there is no Video option whereas I'm on Windows 10. Is that normal ?

Thanks

 

Try downloading this one: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/GenericFrameRecorder/releases/tag/0.2.170919-04

 

Thanks !

When trying to open the tool I have a lot of errors - cf screenshot.

 

Unity version?

 

2017.1.0p4

 

@jasonm_unity3d Any information on that bug?

 

This is quite normal - you have to understand that encoding a video via software in high resolution is heavy on processing - and mostly, it can't be done in realtime in high resolution. That's why capture cards exist - so that they can do this job without eating your resources.

 

I switched to RockVR VR Capture recorder in the meantime till Unity figures this out.

 

Hello,

I also wanted to ask if there is any plans to add the following functionality to recorder. The ability to record movies with audio of portions of your editor and the ability to record individual editor tabs from the editor view? For example, in the future, perhaps you could record just the scene tab or the scene tab with the inspector.

I have been unable to get the GIF feature to work. I press record and move my first person camera. However, it continues to say 0 frames recorded. I am using Unity 2017.2 and am using the recorder from the asset store. Does anyone have suggestions? Here is the screenshot:



In addition, are there certain things I must attach to my first-person camera first for it to be able to record a GIF/Movie properly?

 

Hey devs,

I managed to implement the Recorder fairly easily and after some tweaks it is producing pretty good videos on Windows.
I was wondering if you might have an ETA on when video support will be coming to OSX?

Cheers,
Andrew.

 

Hi, this looks awesome!

Tried the version on the Asset Store with OSX El Capitan on 2017.1 and 2017.2.
For WebM, GIF and OpenEXR I get the following errors after pressing the record button:

Edit: Unity 2017.3 + Unity/Movie record mode works really well. This tool is incredibly useful for people with slow computers who still want to record a high fps video. Great work guys.

Edit 2: enabling Capture UI does seem to mirror the UI vertically though.

 

Any idea when the upside down issue will be fixed? Thanks.

 

When 'Eleven' kills the 'Mind Flayer'.

 

Hi,
It's working flawlessly but Is it possible to record off screen buffers (depth, secular, etc) with this combo or I'll have to use something like Offline Render ?

 

I'm new to Unity, and I haven't been able to figure out how to record my timeline with scripting. I've searched and searched, but to no avail. Do you have any idea how to create such scripts or where to find them in the package content?

 

I'd like to know this too, so I'm just bumping this.

There's another thread going -- actually, it's the official thread linked to from the Asset Store page. Here it is: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-recorder-update.509458/

 

I'm getting an Upside down recording on MacOS for WebM and MP4.

Will it be fixed anytime soon?

 

Hi, does it work with IOS ARKit?

 

I can get the recorder to work in editor mode on windows, but it does not seem to be recording anything in builds. I am saving recordings to Streamingassets folder.
Has anyone encountered this, and possibly found a solution?

 

I also can´t get the recorder to work. It did work for some time but one day... It was no longer possible to select video option unity. And it´s basically completely nonfunctioning. Anyone with same experience?

 

It looks like the package from Github was deprecated and replaced by the Package Manager one, Here's how to get it:

Go into your Project/Packages folder.

Open manifest.json

Add this:

Code (CSharp):

1. {
2.   "registry": "https://staging-packages.unity.com",
3.   "dependencies": {
4.     "com.unity.recorder": "0.2.4-preview"
5.   }
6. }

You can find the new recorder under Window/General/Recorder.

 

In case it saves someone some work it's good to know that the versions available on the package manager (0.2.0-preview through 0.2.4-preview currently) require at least version 2018.2 of Unity. So if you're on 2018.1 like me you're out of luck since the old versions from Github don't work properly on 2018.1 either. Shame because I've been using the Recorder with no problems for a long time on older versions of Unity.

 

Recorder Crashes Unity: (Compy specs: Intel Zeon e5-1620 v3 @ 3.5ghz, 32 GB ram, windows 7 professional 64bit, AMD FirePro W5100) So when I try to record in 4k, unity crashes due to drivers crashing (sometimes it just blue screen of deaths me instead). I have wiped out the drivers and replaced them twice. Everything is up to date: Unity, windows, packages, assets, etc... Lightmaps have been baked, not a large scene.. just crashes almost 80% of the time a press record. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you!