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Advanced Playblast Documentation

ffmpeg Setup

ffmpeg is a free, open-sourced, command line tool that can be used to, among other things, encode and decode media.

Installation

  1. Download a compiled (gpl, non-shared) version of ffmpeg and unzip the contents

    Links to compiled versions of fffmpeg, for various operating systems, are available in the download section of the official ffmpeg.org website (in the Get packages & executables files section).

  2. Copy ffmpeg.exe (Windows) or ffmpeg (macOS) to a location on your hard drive

  3. In Zurbrigg Advanced Playblast, select the Settings tab

  4. In the Playlast section, set the ffmpeg Path to the location of the executable on your hard drive