

Once you have set the path you don’t need to do this again.

Both will work I just find copying and pasting faster.Īfter this you are ready to render animations to video and gif. Or click in the folder icon to search for where is your unzipped folder in your system and select ffmpeg.exe. Here make sure you have the video option on the top selected, and paste the path you copied, making sure to add \ffmpeg.exe at the end of it. The problem with this, is that this option will be disabled unless you have at least one frame set up, so just create a frame with anything in it like I did so you can access the render animation dialog box. Setting up FFmpegįor some weird reason, the path to ffmpeg is set inside the the dialog to render animation, this is under File> Render Animation. Inside the folder you unzipped, go to the \bin folder.Ĭopy the full path to this folder, now we need to get inside krita. Now you need to copy the path to the ffmpeg.exe file. If you download the build with something selected wrong it will not work in krita.Īfter downloading it unzip it anywhere in your PC. After selecting all these press the Download Build button.Linking needs to be static for it to work.Select your operating system (if in doubt select Windows-64 bit).For version you will want to download the stable version ( 4.2.1 at the time I took the screenshot).The problem I see the most is people downloading the wrong version. The website is very straight forward you need to choose your version, your system architecture and the type of linking.

Windows users will need to download the zeranoe build. Krita uses ffmpeg to render video just like many other programs but it doesn’t come bundled with it. Krita version at the time of this tutorial was made was 4.2.8 Downloading FFmpeg I also encourage you to read this post to this end for reasons why you shouldn’t render video in krita and some useful tips. Krita has a documentation but I feel like it could use some images to make things easier to understand. Rendering animation in krita (Windows) One of the most asked questions I see about krita is how to export animation as a video or gif.
