Video Unity Recorder update

What about video files for MacOs?

 

png ,gif format capturing system only working mp4 and png sequence is not working

 

Is it possible to trigger a video recording on a standalone build?

 

Im facing a strange issue as well.

I'm trying to do something for the Neon Competition, but for some reason - my scene (and only this scene) won't record UI Elements.

I create a new scene - works fine. But something about this scene I just don't get it. Is there something I should be doing that I'm obviously just missing?

 

Finally found a workaround after hours... Not sure if it's what I'm supposed to do though.
But I had to change the Canvas to Screen Space - Camera for it to work.

 

Running 2017.2.0f3 and it works better. Makes MP4 which is great. The video is pixelated. Pretty smooth for a few seconds then kind of stops, gets pixelated, then fades into smooth again. Maybe too much on the screen? (can't upload an mp4 file)

 

Any support for mobile for the new recorder asset? I am looking to do screen recordings and then save to the native devices video roll.

 

I'm trying to record a video on Unity 2017.3.0f3 with the following settings:



But the recording stop just after it starts with the following errors:



this only happens when I "Collection Method" is set to "Screen" and "Output format" is set to "MP4".

 

video is working now for me

 

Whatever settings i use, recorder cant record anything and outputs only empty black screenshots and videos. Anyone else have this issue?

Edited: I think this issue is related to scriptable render pipelines. Recorder dont support them.

 

Hi,

Running Recorder on 2017.3.03f produces the following error:





An empty mp4 file is written to the chosen location.

Output setting of x1080p_FHD and lower does work, anything higher produces the error.

Would be happy to try suggested settings.

Cheers

ps. In case anyone's wondering; tint caused by Flux.

 

How would you initiate recording from your own scripts? I couldn't figure out how.

I'd like to proc an animation in my game, and exactly when I do, I want to call BeginRecording.

How would I do this? Right now I need to physically click the button in the editor window with my mouse and it's not a great solution.

Any help is appreciated :')

 

ReplayKit support for screen recording on iOS mobile. And how about Android mobile? Any suggestion? I need to record on Android device and save to gallery. Thank in advance.

 

Hi,
Just gave the latest version of this a quick test, running my project on Unity 2017.3
It seemed to record video nice enough, but I noticed a couple of little irritations I thought I'd mention.
The main one is that it seems to re-import the asset every time i open the project and each time i press play in the editor - I'll get an 'importing package' message pop up then a 'Hold on - importing small assets' message each time. Is this normal?
Other than that - it doesn't remember the input settings between sessions, which would be nice (seems to remember outputs). The ability to save your own little 'presets' would be nice as the asset develops.
Another request would be to be able to stop the recording, without exiting play. That would just make it a bit more friendly to use for recording little snippets of gameplay without having to restart each time.

Still, I don't want to sound too negative... of the different assets and methods I've tried to record game footage from in the editor, this seems to be the best and easiest by far.

 

Cross-platform mobile support is really all I need, so +1 on that feature.

If anyone's looking for a mobile solution right now, I can recommend iVidCapPro on iOS. It recently went open source and is available here: https://github.com/ThisNetWorks/iVidCapPro

 

I cannot record the game play animation, and the only thing that get record is the player transform.

 

How come the video that gets recorded is upside down?

 

The record movie is flipped horizontally on mac OS.
After switching from "Camera" to "Screen/game view", I solved this problem!
Thank you

 

Hi, I have a question, are Render Passes in the working? I would like to be able to export Alpha, AO, Shadows, Albedo, Normals, zDepth and so on.

I've been tricking it by making custom shaders and rendering the scene with all the objects using a material that emulates the passes I need... but is a lot of work and breaking the scene over and over.

 

New MP4 recorder seems to be orders of magnitude slower than legacy one - it goes a few frames at relatively normal framerate and then chokes, managing less than a frame per second from that point on, even on very undemanding games being recorded at 30 fps in 720p. Not sure what's up, some sort of unintentional bottleneck with writing of the frames, maybe?

On another subject, what should I use to smoothly record gameplay with objects moved through physics and FixedUpdate in general? Every single new and legacy recording mode records those objects with varying degrees of choppy movement not observed in normal gameplay - I suppose that's a consequence of time step locking which makes Update-driven stuff easy to record, but probably breaks FixedUpdate movement.

 

is it up to record on a build?

i created timeline and add it to the scene, add to it recorderTrack and recorderClip.

in the Editor everything works fine. both in timeline recording and video window recording and i can see the captured pictures in explorer.

but i ran into some issues in the build mode. such as (found it in log file):

1. XInput1_3.dll not found. Trying XInput9_1_0.dll instead
2. NullReferenceException -
at UnityEngine.Recorder.RecordersInventory.GetRecorderInfo (System.Type recorderType) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

 

This looks very promising!
Quick question: Can this asset record audio from the user's microphone in addition to in-game sounds?
This is vital for use in VR video capture, and if not already implemented, I would highly recommend looking into it!

 

Unity version 2017.2, no matter how many frames are recorded, the resulting mp4 file is always 32k size, and failed to open, indicating that "Windows Media Player cannot play this file.
It may be that the player does not support the file type, or does not support the codec used to compress the file.
The suspicion is that the data is not actually written, but it is not known what caused it.

 

Does this not work with the HD Render Pipeline? I'm in 2018.1 b5 and it works fine with a standard 3D project but when I create an HD Render Pipeline project all of the recorded output is black.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeff

 

Does anyone know how to get the colors right when you create a 360 degree stereoscopic capture? It doesn't matter if postprocessing is on or off, the colors are always too dark and oversaturated. Happens in 2018.1.0.b5 and b6. Using the frame recorder github version from 5 Feb.

Click the thumbnails for images, they show

* how it looks in Unity
* what Frame Recorder saves
* the Render Texture settings
* the Frame Recorder settings

 

i really wanted to give a chance to this instead of throwing money to some 3rd party asset like helios but as soon as i click recorder > video, unity (2017.3) crashes.....

i managed to read "importing small assets" for miliseconds before crashing

 

Works nicely but is there a way to set the mp4 compression? The result is very compressed

 

It is a very nice tool. Eager to use the full release.
here are some problems which I encountered:

- when I use Unity/Movie recorder, during gameplay I can't hear the audio, even if it is recorded and played in the recorded mp4 file.
- If I then un-check the Capture Audio, the recording gets just couple of seconds after starting recording unbelievable slow comparable to a crash.

- If I use UTJ/Legacy/MP4 recorder, the toolbox shows the number of the images recorded correctly but the final file size is just 32 bytes. But I think thats because this method is outdated.

- If I start the recording after starting the game from unity play button, then it gets very very slow.

improvement suggestions:
- saving my presets for recording
- calling the beginRecord function from within the game
- being able to pause and continue
- setting mp4 record quality
- writing the transform coordinates, which are recorded as animation clips, also as lists of coordinates with timestamps into a txt or csv file...

 

In this version the images are still much too the dark in a 360 degree stereoscopic capture.

 

I am trying to start and stop recording with 2 UI buttons on a canvas. The stop button works fine when starting the record from the manual button in the inspector. The "End Recording()" assignment is shown in the inspector. I can not get the start button to work. Can I get an assignment for the start button in the inspector. I tried bool captureVideo, but it dosen't work.

 

I have found that the resulting mp4 files are too short (I'm on Mac). The frames are not being generated at an even rate and so I can't use the result

 

Doesn't seem to lock capture to an even frame rate. Is there a way to lock this to 30fps? I'm trying to use it for a lipsync project and sync seems to be slipping.
Thanks,
Jeff

 

I'm getting an error 'Menu' does not contain a definition for 'SetChecked' in the Verbose.cs script. Im using the 2018.1b version of Unity. I only downloaded the Recorder from the Asset store. didn't change anything afterwards. A known issue?

 

Since nobody of Unity is replying about acknowleding the bugs or providing information about how to work around the problems: Should we even post here? Or should we post issues at github? Posting here feels like a complete waste of time.

 

It´s not possible call something like "PlayRecord" in run time with a script?

 

Apparently this doesn't work correctly in linear color space. It does in gamma color space. At least regarding the 360 video capture. And it seems to not resemble what postprocessing stack v2 (beta) delivers, had to turn it off. Otherwise it's an awesome feature.

 

Hello, recorder works great with timeline, but I have problems with colors when recording mp4. I get a lot of artifacts when recording. They are visible mostly on dark colors and shadows.
Capturing png:

I need high quality record even if it will take 1second to capture a frame How can I make recording quality better?