Matinee export problem (movie or images sequence)

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hi,

I am using unreal editor 4.10.2. (My specs : Windows 7 64 bits, gtx 780 ti 3go, 16 go ram, i7 4770k)

I have done a sequence with Matinee (19,9 frames). When i press the “play” boutton in matinee, the sequence is ok.
But i can’t export the results. When i launch “recording window for matinee” (Record Button), a window appear (Recording viewport) with “unrecognized tab” and nothing is done. When i click on “Movie” button (create a movie), a window appear with the first frame of the scene but the whole scene is not recorded. I can just only move the mouse, or push on the directional key of my keyboard in order to fly through the scene, but that’s not the scene that i’ve recorded in matinee. And it’s very hard to stop the record sequence. I must use “alt+ Tab” to select a another window in order to do that. Moreover, the avi file is not recognized by windows media player and i can’t read the created avi file.

I have used the “bmp” or “jpg” sequence export. But i have almost the same things. A window appear with the first frame of the scene but the whole scene is not recorded. I can just only move the mouse, or push on the directional key of my keyboard in order to fly through the scene, but it’s not the scene that i’ve recorded in matinee, even if after i have “bmp” or “jpg” files that i can read on my computer.

Thank you for your help. I know that I’m not alone in this situation.

Best regards
chris

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Hey 62cs,

I have a few questions to help me narrow down the cause of the issue.

  • Have you added a ‘Director Group’ track within Matinee?
  • How are you calling the Matinee actor to playback when playing in the editor?
  • Have you attempted to select the ‘Play on Level Load’ option within the details tab of the matinee actor?

Let me know if you come across any new information or have further questions.

Thanks,

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hi

Thank you very much for you very quick reply and your help !

I have added a director Group track within Matinee. The name in matinee Windows is “MatineeActor1”

I have selected the “Play on Level Load” option within the detail tab of the matinee actor. There are a significant improvement . Now when i click on “Movie” button (create a movie), and use the “bmp” or “jpg” sequence export, a window appear and the whole scene is recorded. But it’s always very hard to stop the record sequence. I must use “alt+ Tab” to select another window in order to do that. This fact create some useless frames

When i want to create a avi file, the whole sequences seems to be recorded, but it’s always very hard to stop the record sequence. I must use “alt+ Tab” to select another window in order to do that. This created “avi” file is always not recognized by windows media player and i can’t read this file. Could you indicate what is the needed codec or if i can use another codec installed on my computer ?

When i launch “recording window for matinee” (Record Button), a window appear (Recording viewport) with always “unrecognized tab” and nothing is done

Best regards
Chris

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I have the same problem that the .avi is not readable by Windows media player or VLC…

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Hey 62cs,

You will need to add some custom logic to your Level Blueprint that stops the recording upon matinee completed. This will end your recording when using the ‘Movie’ button. I usually do a custom even and name it something like ‘Matinee Complete’ and then connect it to the execute the console command node, and enter ‘Quit.’

I just ran a test on the .AVI playback issue with Windows Media Player you are reporting, but had no problems getting it to play. Have you made sure the application is up to date, and can you reproduce this in a blank project?

Cheers,

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hi

Thank you for your reply and sorry for my late reply. Unfortunately it didn’t work for me. I have the last versions of VLC and i think it’s the same thing for “windows media player” too. I have followed matinee tutorial but unsucessfully

Is there a mean to have a scene file somewhere in order i can study that ?

Best regards
chris

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Well, when you use the matinee ‘Movie’ option you have the ability to choose a directory where the video file will be saved. I usually choose the desktop so I can easily find the video.

Edit: So I found another user who is reporting the same issue you are more than likely experiencing. The good news is, it has been fixed already in the upcoming release of 4.11.

Matinee Issue in 4.10.2

He provides a workaround and the best way I can suggest to avoid the issue is to use a console command and not the ‘Stop Capture’ option in the dialog menu window that pops up when recording a ‘Matinee’/

Cheers,