When the rendering is finished you will have a lot of numbered images.

On the main menu Select Render > Render Animation (or press the shortcut Ctrl + F12)īlender will now start rendering the scene frames one by one.

When you have chosen an output directory for your Image Sequence, choose an Image Format.

(If you want to render directly to video without saving as images, skip to step 8)

Having an image sequence will allow you to experiment with different formats for and settings for encoding to video.

If you render it directly to a video file, you can't stop/pause the render or there is a chance that you will get a corrupted file and have to render all of the frames all over again. Set the Path to the folder where you want your output files to be saved, whether it is rendered as image files or a video file.īefore you make a video file of your animation, it is a good idea to render it as an Image Sequence first. Here are the steps -Ĭhoose an output location for your animation under the Output Settings tab by clicking on 'Output'. You have created an animation and want to make it into a final video format.

2d animation on blender