Unity Recorder - Highest Quality Export Technique (Tutorial)

In this video we look at how to export a JPG image sequence using Unity recorder in order to get the highest possible quality recording of your Unity project. Unity recorder is a package on the Unity Package Manager that is free and easy to use.

[WizardsCode]

Thanks. This is great. I've been using Recorder for ages. Never thought of this technique for improving quality. Great tip.

[samm]

Just stumbled across this after immense frustration from trying to capture my Unity Pixel Art game. Thank you very much for doing this Matt! I hope you are doing well.

[beatalls]

Amazingly concise video! Just what I needed for my graduation project :D

[jameslewczuk]

This is really cool. Unity is becoming a powerful piece of animation software, rivaling some of the best Industry Standard dedicated software out there. With its 2d bone tools, ffd abilities, scripting, lip syncing (Salsa unity asset), and this awesome frame rendering, I'm seriously considering using it to make a cartoon series.

[MattGambell]

I used the Unity recorder on a recent project to capture an animated model moving across the screen and comp into a video in After Effects. Was really impressed with it.

[karjanieluj]

Exactly what i was looking for, thanks Bro !

[seve]

You exactly answered the questions I had concerning OBS/recording higher quality than your display.
I'm surprised there's so few views. Not many resources out there explaining this.

[ianhtexas]

Wow! This is awesome. I’ve been struggling with unity recorder. I’m gonna try this tomorrow. Thanks for the vid! 🍻

[nicolasreinhard]

Exactly what I was looking for ;)
Thank you for this great tutorial!

[nv]

Unity Recorder is launched via the Window > General > Recorder > Recorder Window

[jackwhitenoise]

Thanks for the video Matt , i have tried similar thing while ago and yes...sadly it turns out that rendering images out gives better quality than rendering video,
At the time for personal preference and many other reasons i am still using unity 2017.4 and old recorder so i have hoped that things are better now with new versions of Unity recorder and unity 2019/2010
i am bit surprised that they did not improve quality of video output of video renders in unity recorder 2019/2020
and that users are still forced to use image sequence output and convert them later in video,
Currently i´m using "OpenShot" free video editor to combine images to Mp4 video and later handbrake for compression
hope this helps to somebody and also i hope that in future we will get better quality from recorder and that we will no longer be forced to render image sequence,
it is a little pain to do stuff this like this
but in my opinion this is small problem
Unity still beats the software like After effect(few years back even with additional element 3d package)
when it come to 3D rendering i would still be using Unity because of faster workflow 3d objects post processing and all the other great stuff

[PetersKotstube]

FFmpeg is great to merge an image sequence into an mp4 file. Especially if you don't have a proper video editing app.

[soscilogical]

Can I do a real time bake for a scene with lots of moving objects so they all have ambient occlusion and HQ shadows?

[LisaMurphy]

Where can I get the Unity recorder? I can't find any such thing anywhere.

[davidj_bergman]

Hey man! The atmosphere you created in this scene is really cool! Would mind sharing how you created this fog? I'm a game dev student and this would be really nice to know.

[njlozfv]

Could be possible to generate a PNG or JPG big enough to print in big format?

[nv]

Yaaaah! this is perfect solution thanks a lot!

[bobhawkey]

Very cool. Thanks for this. I'm just getting started exploring Unity Recorder and this helps. Was wondering if something like Beautify 2 would help with the banding gradients. They seem to say it will improve that kind of stuff. Just a suggestion if you haven't considered it. Cheers.

[decorix]

Hi matt, thanks so much. HDRP scene. My character is standing behind a backdrop. So I would to turn this off with mesh render. Secondly theres a postprocesss with Vignett, fog, hdr setups all affecting character. How can I renderout png seq+alpha? I have standard camera+added cinemachinebrain as you had in tut. Camera set to black BG, but it picking up postprocess stuff too. I only want character renderout with alpha? How could you do this? thanks.

[esukumar]

Hy Matt, is Unity 2020 "Unity Recorder" not showing can u tel me how can i get this..??