[Released] AVPro Movie Capture

@Tubbritt,

While we are working on fixing that, as a workaround try ticking 'Capture GUI'.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.1 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

Android

• Fixes
  • Fixed issue with the capture output being incorrectly oriented when using the OpenGLES renderer and having "Apply display rotation during rendering" enabled in the player settings

macOS/iOS

• Fixes
  • #225 Fixed issue with metal captures being cropped oddly

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

@Tubbritt

It should be fixed in the latest release.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.2 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

Android

• Fixes
  • Fixed issue with captures failing or being incorrect when capturing from WebCamTexture on some devices

macOS

• Fixes
  • #226 Fixed issue with captures being over-bright when using the gamma colourspace

iOS

• Fixes
  • #228 Fixed issue with capturing from WebCamTexture

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

!! Announcement !!

Support over the holiday period 2022/2023

Hi all,

Just a quick post to let everyone know when the AVPro team will be (mostly) away from our keyboards over the coming holiday period. Support requests will be addressed at a slower pace through the week commencing 19th December 2022, and responses will likely not happen through the week commencing 26th December 2022. This will pick up again to a regular service on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

A huge thank you to everyone who has helped to make the AVPro assets that little bit better with each passing year. It really would not exist without developers embracing it for their projects, reporting issues with clarity and detail, and just generally being a very excellent people! The team at RenderHeads are are very excited looking into 2023, where we hope to bring you even more desired enhancements to the AVPro asset family, as well as new tools to help make development that little bit easier, exciting, and enjoyable.

Happy Holidays!

 

Hi, how can I export a timeline as a video at runtime?

 

Hi, how can I read the mp4 final filename that AVPRO save on my folder? I had to have a list of saved files but I'm not able to retrieve those names.
Thanks
Massimo

 

Hi @TrollStudio,

We have this component that allows the plugin to take control over the timestep of the Timeline so that it stays in sync with the capture: https://www.renderheads.com/content...e/articles/component-timeline-controller.html
Is that what you mean?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi @masai2k

Are you looking for something like this: https://www.renderheads.com/content...g-captures.html#retreiving-captured-file-path

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi guys,

Im running into a weird probably where 1 outta 10 times, the capturer freezes and my application is stuck in "not responding" forever when stopping a capture. The last line in my log file is the standard avpro line that says stopping capture. How can i fix this?

 

Hi @mchangxe,

Could you fill out a full bug report on our github page please, as it asks for details that give us a better picture of the problem.
https://github.com/RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture/issues

Kind regards,
Chris

 

I often use AVPro Video Capture, currently using version 4.7.11
But the current version cannot use offline capture Unity VideoPlayer Control.
Can I capture Video offline if I buy AVPro Video?

Since I'm currently testing with AVPro Video Capture 4.7.11 + AVPro Video Trial version.
I checked Video Capture in AVProVideo test, but it doesn't work.
When start offline capturing, AVPro Video stops playback. I can't find any documentation on this.

Can you give me some advice?
Thanks.

 

Hi @GGreenTea,

Have you enabled TimeScale Support in the Global Options on the Mediaplayer component?
(https://www.renderheads.com/content/docs/AVProVideo/articles/component-media-player.html#global)

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Oh, I didn't find it, I even set the Rate of AVPro Video.
After I removed them, frame rate of the capture is now very stable.
I have purchased AVPro Video, thank you very much!

 

Hi @GGreenTea

That's great to hear, thank you!!

Kind regards,
Chris

 

How can I view the video after capture?

 

Hi @epare025,

You can use this method to retrieve the filepath: https://www.renderheads.com/content...g-captures.html#retreiving-captured-file-path

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hello I am using Capture From Texture to record video from camera.activeTexture and I blit into source texture on RenderPipelineManager.endCameraRendering. All works fine except my video is flipped. I have tried setting the scale and offset with graphics blit but it doesn't work. Can you provide any help?

Thanks

 

Hi @MarkoTatalovic,

What platform/device are you using? Are you capturing from a webcam/phone camera?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Its an IOS AR URP application, and yea we are capturing the AR background also. Actually we first were using CaptureFromCamera, but the issue was screen was glitching while recording so as a test we tried capturing from texture. I managed to flip the recording by blitting into temporary render texture then blitting with different size and offset into the CaptureFromTexture source texture. This fixed the glitch issue but ideally we would use CaptureFromCamera if possible but I wasn't able to find out the cause of the glitching.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Marko Tatalovic

 

Can you tell me exactly what post process effects you turned off to get the cubemap to disappear?

 

Hi @MarkoTatalovic

It would be helpful if you could fill out our issue template on github, so that we can get a clearer picture of the problem. It also makes it easier for other users to search for issues. Its here: https://github.com/RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture/issues

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.3 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

General

• Fixes
  • Fixed issue with CaptureGUI 'View Last Capture' button not working when the capture file is moved as part of the file writing post-process

macOS

• Improvements
  • Added support for capturing with limited (video) and full (pc) colour ranges

• Fixes
  • Fixed issue with capturing images when using the Vulkan API and “Apply display rotation during rendering” is enabled
    
  • Fixed issue with codec profile and level not being set correctly
    
  • Fixed issue with capture not being relocated to Videos folder if "Streamable MP4" is disabled
    
  • #238 Fixed crash caused by attempting to record audio from device when permission has not been granted

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.4 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

Android

• Fixes
  • #260 Fixed issue with movies captured on certain devices not playing back in Chrome and Edge browsers
    
  • #265 Fixed issue with MediaCodec not being released quickly enough by JavaVM

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

Seems there's an issue with the latest version rendering PNG's with Transparent. Using Capture from Camera (Offline Render) I set it to PNG and when I go to the Transparent option, the dropdown list shows me settings that related to 3D Stereo rendering. Not what I'd expect to see?

Example of the UI attached.

Thanks.
James.

 

Hi AVPro team, firstly thanks for the work you've put into the Movie Capture asset, it's working brilliantly for me!

I've just got a question (or feature request if it's not currently possible) regarding Audio sources: right now two of the options for Audio Sources are 'Unity' and 'Microphone'. While both of those settings work well by themselves, I was just wondering if there's any easy way to simultaneously capture both Unity AND Microphone audio?

The only setup I've found so far involves piping the microphone through an AudioSource so that it's picked up be the Audio Listener (and thus included in AVPro's Unity audio setting), but this means that users can hear themselves as they talk into their microphone, which can be quite off-putting.

Is there any setting in AVPro Movie Capture that I'm missing, which would allow me to capture the microphone as well as Unity audio? If not could I please request this feature for a future release? Alternatively, do you have any suggestions for how to go about this without the drawback of users hearing themselves?

Thanks again!
- Michael

 

Hi @Ser_Tahu,

We don't currently support audio from multiple inputs. Some people have managed it in this thread with a muting behaviour to mitigate the larsen effect: https://github.com/RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture/issues/96

Kind regards,
Chris

 

@Chris-RH Any update on this issue?
https://github.com/RenderHeads/UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture/issues/270

 

@n_saikiran
No update at the moment I'm afraid. We are a very small team with a lot of jobs to focus on.

 

Recently we've been getting the below compile errors when trying to build asset bundles for Standalone Windows 64. Up until recently we've had no issues with that. These compile errors do not show up until we try to build for Windows. Android and iOS work just fine. AVPro seems to be at the heart of this problem, anybody know what causes this issue?

Errors:"
'CaptureBase' does not contain a definition for 'RequestAudioCaptureDeviceUserAuthorisation'
'CaptureBase' does not contain a definition for 'HasUserAuthorisationToCaptureAudio'
'CaptureBase' does not contain a definition for 'RequestAudioCaptureDeviceUserAuthorisation'
'CaptureBase' does not contain a definition for 'HasUserAuthorisationToCaptureAudio'

When using the editor these are never an issue. This only happens when trying to build asset bundles for windows causing them to fail.

 

Hi @EswinParedesICS

Have you tried this: https://www.renderheads.com/content.../articles/usage-audio-capture-permission.html

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hey Chris thanks for the quick response. This is the same code we have which is breaking the asset bundle building. We get compile errors only for building Asset Bundles to Windows Standalone 64. Android and iOS are fine. The errors I've shown before prevent us from having asset bundles built for Windows.

 

Hi @EswinParedesICS

Have you made sure that you wrap the code that calls them in UNITY_IOS and UNITY_ANDROID define checks?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi @Chris-RH
On Desktop Paid Version - UnityPlugin-AVProMovieCapture-v5.1.4, when using CaptureFromCamera component, BeginFinalFileWritingAction is getting called but CompletedFileWritingAction callback is never getting called.

How do we get to know, when the video is ready and the file-writing part is also completed?

 

Hi @n_saikiran,

So you have tried something like this (https://www.renderheads.com/content/docs/AVProMovieCapture/articles/usage-completing-captures.html) and its not working?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Yes @Chris-RH, exactly the same.
CompletedFileWritingAction callback is never getting called.

 

Hi @n_saikiran,

What platform is this on?
Are you testing in a new project with just the Camera Capture demo scene?
Are you getting the same result using Screen Capture?
Is the video still being captured correctly, and just no callback?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hey @Chris-RH - Any ETA on the 5.1.5 release? I'm hoping to use the plugin for production by the end of May and need to be able to capture at half resolution. Love the plugin, love Renderheads! Thank you sir.

 

Hi @Trivium_NickHubben,

Thanks for the kind message. The dev team is out of office this week, but I'll push for it to be done next week at some point.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.5 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

Windows

• Fixes
  • #268 Fixed issue with downscaling cropping instead of scaling

Android

• Fixes
  • #267 Fixed issue with the OpenGLES renderer when the capture format is YVU8_420_BiPlanar
    
  • #269 Fixed issue with UV planes not being reversed on hardware requiring YVU input into the media codec

macOS

• Fixes
  • Fixed issue with captures being inverted when capturing from texture using the OpenGL Core renderer
    
  • Fixed issue with captures being offset when capturing from screen within the editor using the OpenGL Core renderer

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

Hi Everyone,

AVPro Movie Capture version 5.1.6 has just been released!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Changes include:

Windows

• Fixes
  • Fix for Basic version failing to start captures

Thanks to everyone that reported bugs that were fixed in this release

Please report any issues to our Github Issues

 

I'm working on some old code. It looks like CaptureFromScreen._noAudio has been deprecated. What has replaced it?

 

Hi @zenasprime,

Try:
capture.AudioCaptureSource = AudioCaptureSource.None

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hi, im trying to record 8 cameras at same time, is there a way to econde 4 on the gpu and 4 on the cpu?

 

Hi @rocampo ,

I'm afraid that isn't possible.

Potentially, you could render the 8 cameras to a single texture, capture that, and then use ffmpeg or something to pull them apart in post, assuming you want 8 separate files.

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Hey @Chris-RH - hoping you might have pointers for increasing performance. My app is 4k, using Capture From Screen. In the editor my framerate is solid ~200fps, capturing knocks it down to 1 fps after about 2 seconds of recording. I've tried low and high bitrate settings, among other things and the results are nearly the same regardless.
Windows 10 Pro
CPU i7/12 core
GPU GeForce RTX3060 ti
32 gig RAM

Thanks for any advice!

 

Hi @Trivium_NickHubben,

Are you capturing audio as well?
D3D11 or 12?
Realtime or offline render?
Capture framerate setting?
Video codec?
Hardware or software encoding?
Is there a lot going on in your scene? Are you loading any other content while recording?
If you look at your hardware performance in task manager while recording, how does it look?

Kind regards,
Chris

 

Thanks for the idea, im going to try it.
I was recording fine up to 6 cameras, when i starts the 7 and 8 the frame rate drops to 16fps. I was trying to figure it out why.

 

Hi @Chris-RH

I am considering purchasing the paid version and am currently trying the free version, version 5.1.6, but I have a problem.
I was able to use it on my Android device with no problem, but on my iOS device, the recorded video is dark, as if the video is in the dark.

What can I do to fix this problem?

Unity2022.2.21f1 URP
iPhoen13 pro max

 

Hi @amz012_utida,

Is this linear or gamma? Have you tried the other one?
Do you get a similar result when taking a PNG sequence?
is it screen capture? camera capture? texture capture?

Kind regards,
Chris