Installing FFmpeg
To use MP4 output for animation in Lotta or VStitcher, you must install FFmpeg as detailed below.
Mac
To install FFmpeg:
- Go to https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html.
- In Get packages & executable files, click the Mac icon.
A link to static builds for macOS is displayed.
- Click Static builds for macOS 64-bit. A new page is displayed.
- Go to the FFmpeg section.
Note- The left side is snapshots. The right side is releases. The use of snapshots is recommended.
- The snapshot number is regularly updated and will therefore be different from the number in the screenshot above.
- On the snapshots side, click Download as ZIP.
A ZIP file is downloaded to your computer. - Use Finder to go to the file, then double click the downloaded ZIP file to unpack its contents: a file called ffmpeg
- Copy and paste the ffmpeg file to a suitable location on your computer, noting where you have pasted it.
- On the Main menu (of VStitcher or Lotta, as appropriate), click Plugins, then Animation Plugin. The Animation Plugin pane is displayed.
- In Load Animated Avatar, click the drop-down and select an animated avatar. (This is required to enable other fields.)
- In Output, ensure MP4 is selected.
- In FFmpeg Library, click Browse. A file explorer window is displayed.
- Navigate to where ffmpeg is located, and select it.
- Click Open. The file is added to the animation plugin, and FFmpeg is installed.
For more information, refer to the Browzwear Help Center.
Windows
- Go to https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html.
- In Get packages & executable files, click the Windows icon.
Windows EXE Files is displayed.
- Click Window builds by BtbN.
A GitHub page is displayed.
Releases are listed in sections, with the newest release nearest the top of the page.
For example one release is Auto-Build 2020-10-18 12:31.
Under each release are several ZIP files. - In the list under the newest release, click the file with the suffix win64-lgpl.zip. for example:
- A ZIP file is downloaded to your computer.
- Extract the ZIP file.
- Open the extracted folder and navigate down to the bin sub-folder.
- Select ffmpeg.exe and copy the file.
- Paste the file to a suitable location on your computer, noting where you have pasted it.
- On the Main menu (of VStitcher or Lotta, as appropriate), click Plugins, then Animation Plugin. The Animation Plugin pane is displayed.
- In Load Animated Avatar, click the drop-down and select an animated avatar. (This is required to enable other fields.)
- In Output, ensure MP4 is selected.
- In FFmpeg Library, click Browse. A file explorer window is displayed.
- Navigate to where ffmpeg.exe is located, and select it.
- Click Open. The file is added to the animation plugin, and FFmpeg is installed.
For more information, refer to the Browzwear Help Center.
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